- Collection:
- Uprising of '34 Collection
- Title:
- Myrtle Jones, Larry Blatney and Dee Neely Interviews
- Creator:
- Jones, Myrtle
Blatney, Larry
Neely, Dee - Contributor to Resource:
- Helfand, Judith, 1964-
- Date of Original:
- 1994-07-30
- Subject:
- Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)
Cotton textile industry
African Americans
Civil rights
United States. National Recovery Administration - Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Cabarrus County, Concord, Cannon Mills Company
United States, North Carolina, Davie County, Cooleemee, 35.81042, -80.55589
United States, North Carolina, Davie County, Cooleemee, Irving Mills - Medium:
- oral histories (literary genre)
videotapes - Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Myrtle Jones was a textile worker at Cannon Mills in Concord, N.C. Larry Blatney was a textile worker at Cannon Mills in Concord, N.C. Dee Neely grew up in Cooleemee, N.C.
Jones and Blatney discuss the strike, and the letter Jones's father wrote to Franklin Roosevelt. Neely discusses a letter written to Washington, D.C. in which the African American workers at Irving Mill in Cooleemee, N.C. - Local Identifier:
- L1995-13_AV0378
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/uprising/id/78
- 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:
- Click the blue timestamps in the transcript above to navigate to any point in the video and transcript.||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):
- Cite as: Myrtle Jones, Larry Blatney, and Dee Neely, interviewed by Judith Helfand, 30 July 1994. L1995-13_AV0378, Series III: Archival Footage, The Uprising of '34 Collection (1995-13), Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
- Extent:
- 12:56:33 AM
- Original Collection:
- Containers 33 and 83||Southern Labor Archives||https://archivesspace.library.gsu.edu/repositories/2/resources/472||Series III: Archival Footage||The Uprising of '34 Collection (L1995-13)
- Contributing Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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