- Collection:
- Uprising of '34 Collection
- Title:
- Cynthia Haynes and Blanche Willis Interviews
- Creator:
- Haynes, Cynthia
Willis, Blanche - Contributor to Resource:
- Stoney, George C.
Helfand, Judith, 1964-
Stoney, James B. - Date of Original:
- 1991-08-23
- Subject:
- Textile workers
Labor unions
Textile workers--Labor unions
Textile workers--Labor unions--Organizing
Women in the labor movement
Labor union locals
Labor unions and mass media
Labor unions--Organizing
Labor unions--Press coverage
Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union - Location:
- United States, Georgia, North Carolina, 34.92535, -85.26773
United States, North Carolina, Cabarrus County, Kannapolis, 35.48736, -80.62173
United States, North Carolina, Cabarrus County, Kannapolis, Fieldcrest Cannon Inc. - Medium:
- oral histories (document genres)
videotapes - Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Cynthia Haynes was a union organizer a textile worker at Cannon Mills in Kannapolis, N.C. Blanche Willis worked in domestic service and later as cleaning staff at Cannon Mills in Kannapolis, N.C.
Haynes discusses tactics that Cannon Mills used against the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union during the 1991 unionization campaign, her family history in textiles, media coverage of the 1991 unionization campaign and other topics. The interview with Willis consists mainly of instructions on the format for answers of the questions in the interview. - Local Identifier:
- L1995-13_AV0545
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/uprising/id/236
- Language:
- eng
- Rights Holder:
- Copyright to this item is owned by Georgia State University Library. Georgia State University Library has made this item available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. For more information see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/40/
- Additional Rights Information:
- Copyright to this item is owned by Georgia State University Library. Georgia State University Library has made this item available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. For more information see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cynthia Haynes and Blanche Willis, interviewed by George Stoney, Judith Helfand, and Jamie Stoney, 23 August 1991. L1995-13_AV0545, The Uprising of '34 Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
Click the blue timestamps in the transcript above to navigate to any point in the video and transcript. - Extent:
- 00:28:01
- Original Collection:
- Southern Labor Archives
The Uprising of '34 Collection
https://archivesspace.library.gsu.edu/repositories/2/resources/472 - Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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