- Collection:
- Uprising of '34 Collection
- Title:
- Woodrow Wright and Jake Gray Interviews
- Creator:
- Wright, Woodrow
Gray, Jake - Contributor to Resource:
- Stoney, George C.
Helfand, Judith, 1964-
Stoney, James B. - Date of Original:
- 1990/1999
- Subject:
- Textile workers
Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)
Labor unions
Textile workers--Labor unions
Textile workers--Labor unions--Organizing
Labor Day
Social security beneficiaries
New Deal (1933-1939) - People:
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, North Carolina, 34.92535, -85.26773
United States, North Carolina, Gaston County, Belmont, 35.24292, -81.0373
United States, North Carolina, Gaston County, Belmont, Eagle Yarn Mills - Medium:
- oral histories (document genres)
videotapes - Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Woodrow Wright was a doffer at the Eagle Yarn Mills in Belmont, N.C. Jake Gray was a textile worker in Gastonia, N.C.
Wright discusses Labor Day in Gastonia, and walks George Stoney through two of the departments in the mill he worked in. Grey discusses the textile workers' strike of 1934, compares the differences between the textile industry in New England and the South, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Social Security, and segregation in the mill. - Local Identifier:
- L1995-13_AV0557
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/uprising/id/249
- 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):
- Woodrow Wright and Jake Gray, interviewed by George Stoney, Judith Helfand, and Jamie Stoney, no date. L1995-13_AV0557, 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:
- 00:29:09
- 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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