- Collection:
- Uprising of '34 Collection
- Title:
- Bruce Graham and Thelma Massey Interview 1
- Creator:
- Graham, Bruce
Massey, Thelma - Contributor to Resource:
- Stoney, George C.
Helfand, Judith, 1964-
Stoney, James B. - Date of Original:
- 1990/1999
- Subject:
- Cotton textile industry
Textile workers
Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)
Working class African Americans
African American men
African Americans--Economic conditions
African Americans--Employment
African Americans--Housing
Rural African Americans - 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, Eagle Yarn Mills - Medium:
- oral histories (document genres)
videotapes - Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Bruce Graham was an opener and waste machine operator at the Eagle Mill in Belmont, N.C. Thelma Massey is Bruce Graham's relative.
Graham discusses farming, working in the textile mills, and writing a letter to labor board asking that they help him get his back pay. - Local Identifier:
- L1995-13_AV0294
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/uprising/id/57
- 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):
- Bruce Graham and Thelma Massey, interviewed by George Stoney, Judith Helfand, and Jamie Stoney, no date. L1995-13_AV0294, 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:
- 00:58:12
- 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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