- Collection:
- Uprising of '34 Collection
- Title:
- Highland Reunion Interview 1
- Creator:
- Weaver, Foots
Thornburgh, Lucille
Coleman, Homer - Contributor to Resource:
- Stoney, George C.
Stoney, James B. - Date of Original:
- 1991-08-14
- Subject:
- Cotton textile industry
Strikes and lockouts--Textile industry
Blacklisting, Labor
Communism
Labor unions and communism
Labor leaders
Women labor leaders
Labor unions--Organizing - People:
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
- Location:
- 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:
- Lucille Thornburgh was a textile worker and union organizer in Knoxville, Tenn. Foots Weaver was a textile worker and union organizer in Knoxville, Tenn. Homer Coleman was a textile worker and union member in Knoxville, Tenn.
Thornburgh, Weaver, and Coleman discuss union organizing efforts, striking, picket lines, anit-union efforts, communism, and their leadership roles. - Local Identifier:
- L1995-13_AV0647
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/uprising/id/304
- 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):
- Highland Reunion, interviewed by George Stoney and Jamie Stoney, 14 August 1991. L1995-13_AV0647, 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:
- 00:28:59
- 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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