- Collection:
- Uprising of '34 Collection
- Title:
- Elaine Pruitt, Howard R. Made, Ernest Moore, Ruby Moore, and E.O. Friday Interviews
- Creator:
- Moore, Ernest
Moore, Ruby
Friday, E.O. - Contributor to Resource:
- Stoney, George C.
Greer, Richard
Helfand, Judith, 1964-
Pruitt, Elaine - Date of Original:
- 1990/1999
- Subject:
- Textile factories
Factories--Employees
Strikes and lockouts--Textile industry
Industrial management
Labor unions
Textile industry
Textile manufacturers
Women textile workers
Cotton textile industry
Textile workers
Housing
Wages
Labor unions--Organizing
Discrimination in employment
Labor union locals
New Deal (1933-1939)
African Americans--Employment
Working class African Americans
African Americans--Segregation
African Americans--Religion
African Americans--Education
Women in the labor movement
United States. National Recovery Administration
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) - People:
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, North Carolina, 34.92535, -85.26773
United States, North Carolina, Forsyth County, Winston-Salem, 36.09986, -80.24422
United States, North Carolina, Forsyth County, Winston-Salem, Hanes Mill
United States, North Carolina, Gaston County, Belmont, Eagle Yarn Mills
United States, North Carolina, Gaston County, Gastonia, 35.26208, -81.1873
United States, North Carolina, Gaston County, Gastonia, Groves Mill
United States, North Carolina, Gaston County, Gastonia, Modena Cotton Mills - Medium:
- oral histories (document genres)
videotapes - Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Howard R. Made was a textile worker at the Hanes Mill in Winston-Salem, N.C. Ernest and Ruby Moore were textile workers at the Eagle Mill in East Gastonia, N.C. E.O. Friday was a mill worker at the Modena Mill in Gastonia, N.C.
Elaine Pruitt and George Stoney talk to Made about a railroad station near the Hanes Town mill village. Ernest Moore talks about union organization efforts. Ruby Moore discusses how she managed her household while working at the mill. Friday talks about the African American experience in the mills and the exclusion of African Americans from joining the union. - Local Identifier:
- L1995-13_AV0339
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/uprising/id/52
- 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):
- Elaine Pruitt, Howard R. Made, Ernest Moore, Ruby Moore, and E.O. Friday, interviewed by George Stoney, Richard Greer, Judith Helfand, and Elanie Pruitt, no date. L1995-13_AV0339, The Uprising of '34 Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
Click the blue timestamps in the transcript above to navigate to any point in the video and transcript. - Extent:
- 01:56:13
- 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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