- Collection:
- Uprising of '34 Collection
- Title:
- Myrtle Jones and Larry Blatney Interview
- Creator:
- Jones, Myrtle
Blatney, Larry - Contributor to Resource:
- Helfand, Judith, 1964-
- Date of Original:
- 1994-07-30
- Subject:
- African Americans
African Americans--Economic conditions
African Americans--Employment
African Americans--Housing
African Americans--Segregation
Strikes and lockouts--Textile industry
Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)
Textile workers
Working class African Americans - Location:
- United States, Georgia, North Carolina, 34.92535, -85.26773
United States, North Carolina, Cabarrus County, Concord, 35.40888, -80.58158
United States, North Carolina, Cabarrus County, Concord, Cannon Mills Company - Medium:
- oral histories (document genres)
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.
Jones and Blatney discuss a letter that Jones' father wrote to Franklin Roosevelt in 1933 protesting violations of the minimum wage laws, working conditions for African Americans in the cotton mills, segregation, and other topics. - Local Identifier:
- L1995-13_AV0377
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/uprising/id/79
- 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):
- Myrtle Jones and Larry Blatney, interviewed by Judith Helfand, 1994. L1995-13_AV0377, 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:
- 00:56:33
- 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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