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Interview no. | E-0187 |
Restrictions | Interviews may not be published, quoted, or broadcast without permission of Mike Honey until 10 March 2020.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 26 1989 |
Interviewee | Pride, Hillie. |
Interviewee occupation |
Factory workers Labor union members |
Interviewee DOB | 1906 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Honey, Michael K. |
Abstract | Hillie Pride discusses his early career at Fisher Body in Memphis; his wife, Laura Pride, provides occasional input about her experiences with cotton farming, hard times, and poverty among black workers. Hillie discusses his family; money owed to him by Firestone; effects on his and other workers' health from exposure to lampblack and other chemicals at Firestone; difficulty of labor without unions. Differences in pre- and post-integration at the Firestone plant; wage equality after integration; Republicans and manufacturing jobs lost; influx of foreign investors; Ronald Reagan and greed in policy. Crime and safety. |
Citation | Interview with Hillie Pride by Michael K. Honey, May 26, 1989 E-0187, in the Southern Oral History |
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