- Collection:
- Uprising of '34 Collection
- Title:
- Onzelow Adair and Corine Adair Interview 1
- Creator:
- Adair, Onzelow
Adair, Cornie - Contributor to Resource:
- Waldrep, G. C. (George Calvin), 1968-
- Date of Original:
- 1990/1999
- Subject:
- Rural-urban migration
Great Depression
African Americans--Segregation
Strikes and lockouts--Textile industry
Steel-works
Iron and steel workers--Labor unions
Strikes and lockouts--Steel industry
Working class African Americans
Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)
Civil rights demonstrations
Working class women
Discrimination in housing
African Americans--Religion
Baptists
Methodist Church
Public housing - Location:
- United States, Alabama, 32.75041, -86.75026
United States, Alabama, Etowah County, Gadsden, 34.01434, -86.00639
United States, Alabama, Etowah County, Gadsden, Dwight Manufacturing Company - Medium:
- oral histories (document genres)
audio cassettes - Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- Onzelow Adair was a textile and steel worker in Gadsden, Ala. Corine Adair was the wife of Onzelow Adair and worked at a dry cleaners in Gadsden, Ala.
Onzelow Adair and Corine Adair discuss their childhoods, unionization in Gadsden, the Textile Workers' Strike of 1934, the Civil Rights Movement, and other topics. - Local Identifier:
- L1995-13_AV0110a
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/uprising/id/455
- Language:
- eng
- 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):
- Onzelow Adair and Corine Adair, interviewed by G. C. Waldrep, no date. L1995-13_AV0110a, The Uprising of '34 Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
- Extent:
- 00:38:24
- 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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