- Collection:
- Uprising of '34 Collection
- Title:
- Joe Jacobs, Lucille Thornburgh, and Union Organizers Interview 7
- Creator:
- Jacobs, Joseph, 1908-1998
Thornburgh, Lucille - Contributor to Resource:
- Stoney, George C.
- Date of Original:
- 1991-12-28
- Subject:
- Textile workers--Labor unions
Labor unions and communism
Sex discrimination against women
World War (1939-1945)
Working class women
Labor unions--Organizing
Segregation
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, Tennessee, 35.75035, -86.25027
United States, Tennessee, Knox County, Knoxville, 35.96064, -83.92074 - 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 racism and gender discrimination in the mills, the ways in which the union helped to fight the above, and other topics. - Local Identifier:
- L1995-13_AV0595
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/uprising/id/280
- 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, Lucille Thornburgh, and Union Organizers, interviewed by George Stoney, 28 December 1991. L1995-13_AV0595, The Uprising of '34 Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
- Extent:
- 00:28:40
- 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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