- Collection:
- Uprising of '34 Collection
- Title:
- Frank Gorman Interview
- Creator:
- Gorman, Francis J.
- Contributor to Resource:
- Gracy, David B.
- Date of Original:
- 1973-08-08
- Subject:
- Strikes and lockouts--Textile industry
Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)
Labor unions
Discrimination in employment
Textile industry
Textile factories
Textile manufacturers
Textile workers
Labor union members
Families
Emigration and immigration law
Postal service--Employees
Labor leaders
Wages
Race discrimination
African Americans--Employment
Violence in the workplace
Labor unions--Strike benefits
Cotton textile industry
Machinery
Congresses and conventions
Labor laws and legislation
Minimum wage
Great Depression
International labor activities
United Textile Workers of America
United States. National Recovery Administration - People:
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
United States, Georgia, Meriwether County, 33.04066, -84.68831
United States, Georgia, Meriwether County, Warm Springs, 32.89041, -84.68104 - Medium:
- oral histories (document genres)
audiocassettes - Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- Frank Gorman was a labor leader and member of various labor organizations in the South.
Gorman discusses his roles within various labor organizations, efforts to organize in the South, the role of the government and Franklin Delano Roosevelt in providing assistance to the strikers and unions, and opposition to the unions on the part of mill manufacturers. - Local Identifier:
- L1995-13_AV0001
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/uprising/id/80
- 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):
- Frank Gorman, interviewed by David Gracy, 8 August 1973. L1995-13_AV0001, 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:
- 01:03:20
- 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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