- Collection:
- Uprising of '34 Collection
- Title:
- Alma Friday and E.O. Friday Interview
- Creator:
- Friday, Alma
Friday, E.O. - Contributor to Resource:
- Stoney, George C.
Helfand, Judith, 1964-
Stoney, James B. - Date of Original:
- 1990/1999
- Subject:
- Textile factories
Factories--Employees
Strikes and lockouts--Textile industry
Industrial management
Labor unions
Textile industry
Textile manufacturers
Textile workers
Cotton textile industry
Wages
African Americans--Employment
New Deal (1933-1939)
Unfair labor practices
Great Depression
African Americans--Education
African Americans--Segregation
Working class African Americans
African Americans--Civil rights
Civil rights movements
Discrimination in employment - People:
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, North Carolina, 34.92535, -85.26773
United States, North Carolina, Gaston County, Gastonia, 35.26208, -81.1873
United States, North Carolina, Gaston County, Gastonia, Modena Cotton Mills - Medium:
- oral histories (document genres)
videotapes - Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- E.O. Friday was an African American textile worker at the Modena Cotton Mill.
E.O. Friday talks about discrimination against African American workers in the mills, their exclusion from joining the union, and working conditions in the mills. He also discusses Ku Klux Klan activities during this time, his service with the United States Navy, and starting his own business. Alma Friday talks about her education and her early life on a farm. - Local Identifier:
- L1995-13_AV0322
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/uprising/id/22
- 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):
- Alma Friday and E.O. Friday, interviewed by George Stoney, Judith Helfand, and Jamie Stoney, no date. L1995-13_AV0322, 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:
- 00:58:52
- 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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