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Interview no. | E-0177 |
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 | June 1 1981 |
Interviewee | Horton, Myles, 1905-1990. |
Interviewee occupation | School administrators |
Interviewee DOB | 1905 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Honey, Michael K. |
Abstract | This interview with Myles Horton on June 1, 1981 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). Myles was the founder of Highlander Folk School (now the Highlander Research and Education Center). |
Citation | Interview with Myles Horton by Mike Honey, June 1 1981 E-0177, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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