- Collection:
- Uprising of '34 Collection
- Title:
- Ruth Davis and Unknown Man Interview
- Creator:
- Davis, Ruth
- Contributor to Resource:
- Stoney, George C.
Stoney, James B. - Date of Original:
- 1990/1999
- Subject:
- Housing
Murder victims
Murder victims' families
Murderers
Violence
American Civil War (1861-1865)
Memorials
Plaques, plaquettes
Funeral service
Police corruption
Eviction
Intimidation
Mayors
Textile workers--Labor unions
Labor union members
Grocery shopping
Police chiefs
Trials (Murder)
Weapons - Location:
- United States, South Carolina, 34.00043, -81.00009
United States, South Carolina, Anderson County, Honea Path, 34.4465, -82.39151
United States, South Carolina, Anderson County, Honea Path, Chiquola Manufacturing Company - Medium:
- oral histories (document genres)
videotapes - Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Ruth Davis was the daughter of Bill Knight who was one of the seven men murdered in Honea Path, South Carolina in 1934 outside of the Chiquola Mill.
Davis talks about her father, his death, and the community response. The unknown man in the video walks through the event step by step including visiting the funeral site. - Local Identifier:
- L1995-13_AV0696
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/uprising/id/443
- Language:
- eng
- 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):
- Ruth Davis and Unknown Man, interviewed by George Stoney and Jamie Stoney, no date. L1995-13_AV0696, 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:
- 00:29:59
- 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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