- Collection:
- Uprising of '34 Collection
- Title:
- Joe Jacobs, Lucille Thornburgh, and Union Organziers Interview 4
- Creator:
- Jacobs, Joseph, 1908-1998
Thornburgh, Lucille - Contributor to Resource:
- Stoney, George C.
- Date of Original:
- 1991-12-28
- Subject:
- Textile workers
Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)
Working class African Americans
African Americans--Segregation
African American clergy
American Civil War (1861-1865)
Civil rights
History
Labor Unions
Segregation in education
Working class women
Automobile industry workers--Labor unions
Coal miners--Labor unions--Organizing
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, 33.79025, -84.46702
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
United States, Tennessee, 35.75035, -86.25027
United States, Tennessee, Knox County, Knoxville, 35.96064, -83.92074 - Medium:
- oral histories (document genres)
videotapes - Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Joe Jacobs was a lawyer who worked extensively with labor unions throughout his career. In addition, Jacobs was an organizer during the 1934 strike as well as serving as the Southern Regional Director for the United Textile Workers of America. Lucille Thornburgh was a textile worker and union organizer in Knoxville, Tenn.
Jacobs, Thornburgh and union organizers talk about how the textile workers' strike of 1934 is relevant for contemporary workers, the intertwined history of the Labor Movement and the Civil Rights Movement, and the discomfort them memory of the strike cause in many communities. - Local Identifier:
- L1995-13_AV0588
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/uprising/id/272
- 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):
- Joe Jacobs, Lucille Thornburgh, and Union Organizers, interviewed by George Stoney, 28 December 1991. L1995-13_AV0588, The Uprising of '34 Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
- Extent:
- 00:28:47
- 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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