- Collection:
- Uprising of '34 Collection
- Title:
- Joe Jacobs Interview 4
- Creator:
- Jacobs, Joseph, 1908-1998
- Contributor to Resource:
- Stoney, George C.
Stoney, James B. - Date of Original:
- 1990-07-17
- Subject:
- Cotton textile industry
Labor unions
Strikes and lockouts--Textile industry
Wages
Eight-hour movement
Hours of Labor--Law and legislation
Blacklisting, Labor
Labor union locals
Lawyers
Lawyers--Labor unions
Prejudices
Wages--Building trades
Building trades--Employees--Labor unions
Building trades--Employees
Meat industry and trade
Meat industry and trade--Employees
Strikes and lockouts--Meat industry
Hatters
Labor unions--Organizing
Labor unions--Law and legislation
Labor unions, Black
National Guard Association of the United States
Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union - People:
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
Talmadge, Herman E. (Herman Eugene), 1913-2002 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
United States, Georgia, Coweta County, 33.35346, -84.76337
United States, Georgia, Coweta County, Newnan, 33.38067, -84.79966
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, 33.79025, -84.46702
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798 - 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.
Jacobs discusses his beginnings as a lawyer working with the unions, his family origins, and the start of the Flying Squadrons. - Local Identifier:
- L1995-13_AV0610
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/uprising/id/273
- 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, interviewed by George Stoney and Jamie Stoney, 17 July 1990. L1995-13_AV0610, 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:
- 00:29:18
- 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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