- Collection:
- Uprising of '34 Collection
- Title:
- Bob Freeman and Ray Melton Interview 3
- Creator:
- Freeman, Bob
Melton, Ray - Contributor to Resource:
- Stoney, George C.
Helfand, Judith, 1964-
Stoney, James B. - Date of Original:
- 1991-08-24
- Subject:
- Textile workers
Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)
Labor unions
Police
Textile workers--Labor unions
Working class - Location:
- United States, Georgia, North Carolina, 34.92535, -85.26773
United States, North Carolina, Cabarrus County, Kannapolis, 35.48736, -80.62173 - Medium:
- oral histories (document genres)
videotapes - Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Bob Freeman was a union organizer and worked to integrate Cannon Mills in Kannapolis, N.C. Ray Milton was a police officer in Kannapolis, N.C.
Milton and Freeman discuss the relationship between Cannon Mills and the Kannapolis police department, the 1974 unionization campaign at Cannon Mills, the textile workers' strike of 1934, the relationship between churches and the mills,and the erasure of working class history in Kannapolis. - Local Identifier:
- L1995-13_AV0549
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/uprising/id/242
- 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):
- Bob Freeman and Ray Melton, interviewed by George Stoney and Judith Helfand, 24 August 1991. L1995-13_AV0549, 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:
- 00:29:37
- 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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