- Collection:
- Uprising of '34 Collection
- Title:
- Mary A. Wright and L.C. Wright Interview 1
- Creator:
- Wright, Mary A.
Wright, L.C. - Contributor to Resource:
- Stoney, George C.
- Date of Original:
- 1990/1999
- Subject:
- Collective bargaining--Textile industry
Cotton textile industry
Strikes and lockouts--Textile industry
Textile factories
Textile workers
Textile workers--Labor unions
Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)
Unfair labor practices
African American labor union members
Labor Day
Labor laws and legislation
Southern States--Economic conditions
Race relations - 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:
- L.C. Wright was a loom fixer at the Fieldcrest Cannon Mill in Kannapolis, N.C.
Wright talks about union organizing in the 1970s, retirement benefits, labor laws, and the tactics which mills used to keep their workforce from organzing. - Local Identifier:
- L1995-13_AV0333
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/uprising/id/26
- 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):
- Mary Wright and L.C. Wright, interviewed by George Stoney, no date. L1995-13_AV0333, 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:
- 00:58:44
- 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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