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Interview no. | E-0205 |
Restrictions | Interviews may not be published, quoted, or broadcast without permission of Mike Honey until 10 March 2020.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 | October 30 1984 |
Interviewee | Clark, George. |
Interviewee occupation |
Labor leaders Labor union members Presidents, labor unions |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Honey, Michael K. |
Abstract | This interview with George Clark on October 30, 1984 was conducted by Michael K. Honey, Ph.D. as part of his research on Southern labor history, which contributed to his books, Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers (1993), Black Workers Remember: An Oral History of Segregation, Unionism, and the Freedom Struggle (1999), and Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign (2007). George Clark was the Firestone union president. |
Citation | Interview with George Clark by Mike Honey, October 301984 E-0205, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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