- Collection:
- Uprising of '34 Collection
- Title:
- Blanche Willis and Her Daughter Kay Interview
- Creator:
- Willis, Blanche
- Contributor to Resource:
- Stoney, George C.
Helfand, Judith, 1964-
Stoney, James B. - Date of Original:
- 1991-08-23
- Subject:
- Cotton textile industry
Discrimination in employment
Discrimination in restaurants
Discrimination--Law and legislation
Race discrimination
Buses
Wages
Women in the labor movement
Affirmative action programs
African American civil rights workers
African American labor leaders
African American labor union members
African American women civil rights workers
African American women household employees
African Americans--Civil rights
African Americans--Employment
African Americans--Segregation
Labor union members
Labor unions, Black - 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 was a domestic employee for the Cannon family, who owned the Cannon Mill in Kannapolis, NC. Kay, daughter of Blanche Willis, was the first African-American woman employed at Cannon Mill.
Blanche Willis and her daughter Kay discuss what it was like during the Civil Rights movement, and Kay describes what it was like to be the first African American woman to be employed at the Cannon Mill. - Local Identifier:
- L1995-13_AV0527
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/uprising/id/219
- 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 and Kay, interviewed by George Stoney, Judith Helfand, and Jamie Stoney, 23 August 1991. L1995-13_AV0527, 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:
- 00:29:36
- 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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