- Collection:
- Uprising of '34 Collection
- Title:
- Laurie Rushmeyer, L. Boyd Deal and Others Interviews
- Creator:
- Rushmeyer, Laurie
Deal, L. Boyd - Contributor to Resource:
- Stoney, George C.
Helfand, Judith, 1964-
Stoney, James B. - Date of Original:
- 1990/1999
- Subject:
- Labor unions
Labor union members
Labor unions and mass media
Labor unions--Organizing
Textile workers--Labor unions
Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)
Textile workers - Location:
- United States, Georgia, North Carolina, 34.92535, -85.26773
United States, North Carolina, Cabarrus County, Concord, Cannon Mills Company
United States, North Carolina, Cabarrus County, Kannapolis, 35.48736, -80.62173 - Medium:
- oral histories (document genres)
videotapes - Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Laurie Rushmeyer was a textile worker at Fieldcrest-Cannon Mills (formerly Cannon Mills) in Kannapolis, N.C. who was a union organizer in the 1990s. L. Boyd Deal was a textile worker at Fieldcrest-Cannon Mills in Kannapolis, N.C. who was a union organizer in the 1990s. Deal lost his job as a result of his organizing activities.
Rushmeyer discusses her work as an organizer, current conditions in the Fieldcrest Cannon plant, tactics used by Fieldcrest Cannon to keep the union out and other topics. Deal, Rushmeyer, Mary, Peggy, and Cynthia discuss the local perceptions of the union, conditions in the Fieldcrest Cannon plant, the Civil Rights movement, relationships between the mill ownership and the town of Kannapolis, the recent union campaign, and other topics. - Local Identifier:
- L1995-13_AV0361
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/uprising/id/99
- 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):
- Laurie Rushmeyer and L. Boyd Deal, interviewed by George Stoney, Judith Helfand, and Jamie Stoney, no date. L1995-13_AV0361, 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:
- 01:58:32
- 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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