- Collection:
- Uprising of '34 Collection
- Title:
- D.W. Brooks Interview
- Creator:
- Brooks, David William, 1901-
- Contributor to Resource:
- Stoney, George C.
- Date of Original:
- 1990-07-18
- Subject:
- Textile manufacturers
Agriculture, Cooperative
Cotton
United States. National Recovery Administration
Georgia. Governor (1948-1955 : Talmadge) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- oral histories (document genres)
videotapes - Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- D.W. Brooks was an economist and farmer who founded multiple farming cooperatives and was an adviser to multiple presidents.
Brooks discusses the cotton co-ops that he started in the 1930s, working with mill owners to sell them the cotton produced by the co-ops, the National Recovery Act, workign with union leaders during the Korean War, Eugene Talmadge, Georgia Tech and other topics. - Local Identifier:
- L1995-13_AV0617
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/uprising/id/296
- 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):
- D.W. Brooks, interviewed by George Stoney, 18 July 1990. L1995-13_AV0617, 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:
- 00:29:03
- 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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