- Collection:
- Uprising of '34 Collection
- Title:
- Blanche Willis and Plant Six Women Interviews
- Creator:
- Willis, Blanche
- Contributor to Resource:
- Stoney, George C.
Helfand, Judith, 1964- - Date of Original:
- 1991-08-23
- Subject:
- Textile workers
Working class African Americans
African American women
African Americans--Segregation
Women in the labor movement
Women blue collar workers
Women labor leaders
Women textile workers
Women textile workers--Social conditions
Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union - 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:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Blanche Willis worked in domestic service and later as cleaning staff at a textile mill in Kannapolis, N.C.
Willis discusses segregation in the mills and the community, domestic service, going to work in the the textile mill and her husband's work in the textile mills as both a janitor and a machine operator. The Plant Six Women discuss the recent Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union election results at the Fieldcrest-Cannon textile mill. - Local Identifier:
- L1995-13_AV0529
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/uprising/id/213
- 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):
- Blanche Willis, interviewed by George Stoney and Judith Helfand, 23 August 1991. L1995-13_AV0529, 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:
- 00:29:46
- 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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