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Interview no. | E-0197 |
Restrictions | Interviews may not be published, quoted, or broadcast without permission of Mike Honey until 10 March 2020.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 16 1982 |
Interviewee |
McCrea, Edwin. McCrea, Beatrice. |
Interviewee occupation |
Labor leaders Factory workers Communists Textile workers |
Interviewee DOB | 1915; Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Honey, Michael K. |
Abstract | This interview with Ed and Bea McCrea on October 16, 1982 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). Ed McCrea was the Communist Party Tennessee district organizer in 1937, a Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) organizer, and a Food, Tobacco, Agricultural, and Allied Workers (FTA) organizer. Ed's wife, Bea, worked in a textile plant near Nashville and was a former Communist Party member. |
Citation | Interview with Ed and Bea McCrea by Mike Honey, October 16 1982 E-0197, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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