- Collection:
- Uprising of '34 Collection
- Title:
- Mason Lynch, Eva Helms, Myrtle Brown, and Betty Hinson Interviews
- Creator:
- Lynch, Mason
Helms, Eva
Brown, Myrtle
Hinson, Betty - Contributor to Resource:
- Stoney, George C.
Helfand, Judith, 1964-
Stoney, James B. - Date of Original:
- 1990/1999
- Subject:
- Cotton textile industry
Strikes and lockouts--Textile industry
Textile factories
Textile workers
Textile workers--Labor unions
Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)
Women textile workers - Location:
- United States, Georgia, North Carolina, 34.92535, -85.26773
United States, North Carolina, Gaston County, Belmont, 35.24292, -81.0373
United States, North Carolina, Gaston County, Belmont, Belmont Hosiery Mill
United States, North Carolina, Gaston County, Belmont, Chronicle Mill - Medium:
- oral histories (document genres)
videotapes - Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Betty Hinson was a looper at Belmont Hosiery in Belmont, N.C. Mason Lynch was a textile worker at the Chronicle Mill in Belmont, N.C. Myrtle Brown was a textile worker at the Chronicle Mill in Belmont, N.C. Eva Helms was a textile worker at the Chronicle Mill in Belmont, N.C.
Lynch, Brown and Helms discuss the 1934 strike, why George Stoney might be having trouble finding former union members, and life in the mill village. Hinson discusses music and dancing during her portion of the video. - Local Identifier:
- L1995-13_AV0279
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/uprising/id/41
- 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):
- Mason Lynch, Eva Helms, Myrtle Brown, Betty Hinson, interviewed by George Stoney, Judith Helfand, and Jamie Stoney, no date. L1995-13_AV0279, 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:
- 00:56:04
- 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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