- Collection:
- Uprising of '34 Collection
- Title:
- Blanche Willis Interview
- Creator:
- Willis, Blanche
- Contributor to Resource:
- Stoney, George C.
Helfand, Judith, 1964- - Date of Original:
- 1991-08-23
- Subject:
- African American women household employees
African Americans--Civil rights
African Americans--Employment
African Americans--Segregation - 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 her work as a domestic servant, her husband's work in the mills both pre and post integration, and her childhood in Kannapolis. - Local Identifier:
- L1995-13_AV0533
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/uprising/id/223
- 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_AV0533, 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:
- 00:28:24
- 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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