- Collection:
- Uprising of '34 Collection
- Title:
- Joe Jacobs, Lucille Thornburgh, and Union Organizers Interview 6
- Creator:
- Jacobs, Joseph, 1908-1998
Thornburgh, Lucille - Contributor to Resource:
- Stoney, George C.
- Date of Original:
- 1991-12-28
- Subject:
- Textile workers
Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)
Blacklisting, Labor
Textile workers--Labor unions
African American women
Labor unions--Organizing
Working class--Education - Location:
- United States, Alabama, 32.75041, -86.75026
United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
United States, Georgia, Bibb County, Macon, Bibb Manufacturing Company
United States, Georgia, Muscogee County, 32.50996, -84.87704
United States, Georgia, Muscogee County, Columbus, 32.46098, -84.98771
United States, North Carolina, Cabarrus County, Concord, Cannon Mills Company - Medium:
- oral histories (document genres)
videotapes - Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Joe Jacobs was a lawyer who worked extensively with labor unions throughout his career. In addition, Jacobs was an organizer during the 1934 strike as well as serving as the Southern Regional Director for the United Textile Workers of America. Lucille Thornburgh was a textile worker and union organizer in Knoxville, Tenn.
Jacobs, Thornburgh and the union organizers discuss the how unions are portrayed in the media, why they work as organizers, why mill ownership works against unions, blacklisting and other topics. - Local Identifier:
- L1995-13_AV0593
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/uprising/id/276
- 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):
- Joe Jacobs and Lucille Thornburgh, interviewed by George Stoney, 28 December 1991. L1995-13_AV0593, The Uprising of '34 Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
- Extent:
- 00:29:04
- 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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