- Collection:
- Uprising of '34 Collection
- Title:
- Myrtle Jones, Larry Blatney and Dee Neely Interviews
- Creator:
- Jones, Myrtle
Blatney, Larry
Neely, Dee - Contributor to Resource:
- Helfand, Judith, 1964-
- Date of Original:
- 1994-07-30
- Subject:
- Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)
Cotton textile industry
African Americans
Civil rights
United States. National Recovery Administration - Location:
- United States, Georgia, North Carolina, 34.92535, -85.26773
United States, North Carolina, Cabarrus County, Concord, Cannon Mills Company
United States, North Carolina, Davie County, Cooleemee, 35.81042, -80.55589
United States, North Carolina, Davie County, Cooleemee, Irving Mills - Medium:
- oral histories (document genres)
videotapes - Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Myrtle Jones was a textile worker at Cannon Mills in Concord, N.C. Larry Blatney was a textile worker at Cannon Mills in Concord, N.C. Dee Neely grew up in Cooleemee, N.C.
Jones and Blatney discuss the strike, and the letter Jones's father wrote to Franklin Roosevelt. Neely discusses a letter written to Washington, D.C. in which the African American workers at Irving Mill in Cooleemee, N.C. - Local Identifier:
- L1995-13_AV0378
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/uprising/id/78
- 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):
- Myrtle Jones, Larry Blatney, and Dee Neely, interviewed by Judith Helfand, 30 July 1994. L1995-13_AV0378, 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:
- 00:56:26
- 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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