- Collection:
- Uprising of '34 Collection
- Title:
- Walter Sharpe and Thom Malcolm Interview 1
- Creator:
- Sharpe, Walter
Malcolm, Thom - Contributor to Resource:
- Stoney, George C.
Helfand, Judith, 1964- - Date of Original:
- 1991-08-13
- Subject:
- Textile workers
Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)
Strikes and lockouts--Textile industry
Textile workers--Labor unions
Textile workers--Labor unions--Organizing
African Americans--Civil rights
Civil rights - Location:
- United States, Alabama, 32.75041, -86.75026
United States, Alabama, Lee County, Opelika, 32.64541, -85.37828 - Medium:
- oral histories (document genres)
videotapes - Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Walter Sharpe was a textile worker in Opelika, Ala. He was a union steward in the 1970s. Thom Malcolm is related to several textile workers from Opelika, Ala.
Sharpe discusses the textile workers' strike of 1934, union organizing in the 1970s, life in the mill village, evictions in the mill village and other topics. - Local Identifier:
- L1995-13_AV0474
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/uprising/id/171
- 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):
- Walter Sharpe and Thom Malcolm, interviewed by George Stoney and Judith Helfand, 13 August 1991. L1995-13_AV0474, 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:
- 00:28:57
- Original Collection:
- Southern Labor Archives
The Uprising of '34 Collection
https://archivesspace.library.gsu.edu/repositories/2/resources/472 - Contributing Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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