- Collection:
- Uprising of '34 Collection
- Title:
- Joe Jacobs, Lucille Thornburgh, and Union Organizers Interview 8
- 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)
Race discrimination
Rural-urban migration
Sharecroppers
Working class African Americans
Segregation
Segregation in education
Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
United States, Georgia, Bibb County, Macon, Bibb Manufacturing Company
United States, Georgia, Muscogee County, 32.50996, -84.87704
United States, Georgia, Muscogee County, Columbus, 32.46098, -84.98771
United States, Georgia, North Carolina, 34.92535, -85.26773
United States, North Carolina, Cabarrus County, Kannapolis, 35.48736, -80.62173
United States, North Carolina, Cabarrus County, Kannapolis, Fieldcrest Cannon Inc. - 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 discuss the shame associated with the strike, feelings of shame associated with being a textile worker, racism and segregation, and other topics. - Local Identifier:
- L1995-13_AV0596
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/uprising/id/279
- 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_AV0596, The Uprising of '34 Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
- Extent:
- 00:27:54
- 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:
-