- Collection:
- Uprising of '34 Collection
- Title:
- Joe Jacobs Interview 1
- Creator:
- Jacobs, Joseph, 1908-1998
- Contributor to Resource:
- Helfand, Judith, 1964-
- Date of Original:
- 1994-08-04
- Subject:
- Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)
Textile workers--Labor unions
Blacklisting, Labor
Labor unions and education
Labor unions--Law and legislation
Labor unions--Organizing
Labor unions--Political activity
Lawyers--Labor unions
United States. National Recovery Administration
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 - 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.
Jacobs discusses the impacts of the Textile Workers' Strike of 1934, the difficulties in organizing textile workers, the importance of labor unions, his work trying to provide justice for blacklisted strikers, the impacts of the NRA and other topics. - Local Identifier:
- L1995-13_AV0385
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/uprising/id/92
- 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, interviewed by Judith Helfand, 4 August 1994. L1995-13_AV0385, 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:
- 00:59:20
- 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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