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Interview no. | E-0172 |
Restrictions | Interviews may not be published, quoted, or broadcast without permission of Mike Honey until 10 March 2020. |
Project | E.6. Labor: Michael Honey Collection on Southern Labor History |
Project description | Interviews conducted by Michael Honey, 1981-1998, as part of research focusing on the relationship between labor organizing and the civil rights movement in Memphis, Tenn., and elsewhere in the South, 1930s-1980s. Interviewees, African American and white, were workers at the Memphis Firestone plant or life-long social justice and labor activists. The interviews were used to produce Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers (1993) and Black Workers Remember: An Oral History of Segregation, Unionism, and the Freedom Struggle (2002). |
Date | May 24 1989 |
Interviewee | Clark, Alzada. |
Interviewee occupation |
Community organizers Factory workers Labor union members |
Interviewee DOB | 1923 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Honey, Michael K. |
Abstract | Alzada Clark discusses union organizing, protests, and segregation in Chicago, Ill., New York, High Point, N.C., and Memphis, Tenn. Topics include conditions at the Memphis Dinette Furniture Factory; her education at Manassas High School and LeMoyne-Owen College; her work in the Garment District in New York in 1958; the 1952 CTA bus strike; the Firestone Rubber and Tire Plant in Memphis, Tenn., and its appeal to workers; her first organizing job with hospital workers in Tennesseee, and her trip to Washington, D.C., to speak about voter registration. Clark also discusses her family life and parents' work history at a Memphis furniture store and at the Pillsbury Flour Company and her husband Leroy's union organizing, background, and family life. Finally, she talks about her grief at Leroy's death. |
Citation | Interview with Alzada Clark by Michael K. Honey, May 24, 1989 E-0172, in the Southern Oral History |
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