- Collection:
- Uprising of '34 Collection
- Title:
- Lucille Thornburgh Interview 12
- Creator:
- Thornburgh, Lucille
- Contributor to Resource:
- Stoney, George C.
Helfand, Judith, 1964- - Date of Original:
- 1990/1999
- Subject:
- Women in the labor movement
Working class women
Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)
Blacklisting, Labor
Labor union members
Social security beneficiaries
African Americans--Segregation
Working class African Americans
Working class--Political activity - People:
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
- Location:
- United States, Tennessee, 35.75035, -86.25027
United States, Tennessee, Knox County, Knoxville, 35.96064, -83.92074
United States, Tennessee, Knox County, Knoxville, Cherokee Spinning Company - Medium:
- oral histories (document genres)
audio cassettes - Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- Lucille Thornburgh was a textile worker and union organizer in Knoxville, Tenn.
Thornburgh discusses the impact that becoming involved with the labor movement had on her life, the effects of blacklisting on union members, segregation in the textile mills, the textile workers' strike of 1934, violence during the strike, and politics. - Local Identifier:
- L1995-13_AV0027
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/uprising/id/386
- 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):
- Lucille Thornburgh, interviewed by George Stoney and Judith Helfand, no date. L1995-13_AV0027, The Uprising of '34 Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
- Extent:
- 01:32:20
- 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:
-