- Collection:
- Uprising of '34 Collection
- Title:
- Cynthia Chattis, Charlie Jordan, Jim Chattis, Carrie Chattis and Harold Foster Interviews
- Creator:
- Chattis, Cynthia
Jordan, Charlie
Chattis, Jim
Chattis, Carrie
Foster, Harold - Contributor to Resource:
- Helfand, Judith, 1964-
- Date of Original:
- 1990/1999
- Subject:
- Textile workers--Labor unions
African Americans--Segregation
Strikes and lockouts--Textile industry
Working class African Americans
Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)
Child labor
Women textile workers
Working class women
Wages
Working mothers
Working class women--Family relationships
Working class--Dwellings
United Textile Workers of America - Location:
- United States, Georgia, North Carolina, 34.92535, -85.26773
United States, North Carolina, Davie County, Cooleemee, 35.81042, -80.55589 - Medium:
- oral histories (document genres)
audio cassettes - Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- Cynthia Chattis was a textile worker and union organizer from Cooleemee, N.C. Charlie Jordan was a textile worker and industrial engineer from Cooleemee, N.C. Jim Chattis was a textile worker in Cooleemee, N.C. Carrie Chattis was a textile worker in Cooleemee, N.C. Harold Foster was a textile worker in Cooleemee. N.C.
Cynthia Chattis and Charlie Jordan discuss the textile workers' strike of 1934, unions in Cooleemee, segregation in the textile mills, the mill villages and a strike that happened in Cooleemee after 1934. Carrie Chattis and Jim Chattis discuss the textile workers' strike of 1934, living in the mill village, a later strike in Cooleemee, and other topics. Foster discusses the textile workers' strike of 1934 and its impact on Cooleemee's unionization. - Local Identifier:
- L1995-13_AV0403
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/uprising/id/474
- 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):
- Cynthia Chattis, Charlie Jordan, Jim Chattis, Carrie Chattis and Harold Foster, interviewed by Judith Helfand, no date. L1995-13_AV0403, The Uprising of '34 Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
- Extent:
- 01:36:35
- 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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