- Collection:
- Uprising of '34 Collection
- Title:
- Mary Lou Whitlock Interview
- Creator:
- Whitlock, Mary Lou
- Contributor to Resource:
- Helfand, Judith, 1964-
- Date of Original:
- 1990/1999
- Subject:
- Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)
Textile factories
Working class women
Rural-urban migration
Child labor
Wages--Women
Working class women--Family relationships
Women textile workers
Blacklisting, Labor
Textile workers--Health and hygiene
Minimum wage
Working class--Dwellings
Food
African Americans--Segregation
Working class--Education
Sharecroppers
Marriage - People:
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
- 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 - Medium:
- oral histories (document genres)
audiocassettes - Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- Mary Lou Whitlock was a spinner from Macon, Ga.
Whitlock discusses going to work at 12 years old, her work as a spinner, life in the mill village, the textile workers' strike of 1934, and other topics. - Local Identifier:
- L1995-AV_0407
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/uprising/id/477
- 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):
- Mary Lou Whitlock, interviewed by Judith Helfand, no date. L1995-13_AV0407, The Uprising of '34 Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
- Extent:
- 01:36:33
- 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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