- Collection:
- Uprising of '34 Collection
- Title:
- Joe Jacobs and Bill Winn Interviews
- Creator:
- Jacobs, Joseph, 1908-1998
Winn, William W., 1938- - Contributor to Resource:
- Stoney, George C.
Stoney, James B. - Date of Original:
- 1990-07-19
- Subject:
- Textile workers
Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)
Textile factories
Textile workers--Labor unions
United Textile Workers of America - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, 33.79025, -84.46702
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills
United States, Georgia, Muscogee County, 32.50996, -84.87704
United States, Georgia, Muscogee County, Columbus, 32.46098, -84.98771 - 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. Bill Winn is a journalist in Columbus, Ga.
Jacobs discusses the activities of the United Textile Workers of America at the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill during the textile workers' strike of 1934, and how Cabbagetown has changed during the intervening 56 years. Winn discusses the history of the textile mills in Columbus, Ga., his family background and the time he spent working at the Muscogee Manufacturing Company. - Local Identifier:
- L1995-13_AV0735
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/uprising/id/346
- 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 Bill Winn, interviewed by George Stoney and Jamie Stoney, 19 July 1990. L1995-13_AV0735, 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:
- 00:30:05
- 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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