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Interview no. | E-0176 |
Restrictions | Permission of interviewer required to read, listen to, or quote from interview. |
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 | March 23 1990 |
Interviewee | Holloway, George. |
Interviewee occupation |
Factory workers Labor leaders |
Interviewee DOB | 1915 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Honey, Michael K. |
Abstract | George Holloway discusses his upbringing during the Depression and memories of his father in the Pullman/Porters' Union; improvements in quality of life for Porters after successful bargaining. Memphis under "Boss Crump" and his opposition to unions; segregated Memphis; police brutality; fear of the police. The United Auto Workers (UAW) and the poll tax. Problems with voting for blacks; improvements in housing and other conditions. Organizing at Firestone; organizing in the South and in Oakland, California. George Bass and principles of the CIO; integration at Firestone; hiring and promotion practices at Firestone. The Holloway family's background in slavery and sharecropping; George's education at Tuskegee University. World War Two and its effect on race relations in the United States. Work at the Harvester plant during the 1940s and '50s; bargaining for better wages. Early days of the UAW in Memphis; Martin Luther King, Jr. and organizing the sanitation workers. FBI investigation of Holloway and his son. Lasting inequalities and need for health care reform. |
Citation | Interview with George Holloway by Michael K. Honey, March 23, 1990 E-0176, in the Southern Oral History |
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