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Interview no. | E-0136 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | E.5. Labor: Civil Rights Unionism |
Project description | Interviews, 1976-2000, chiefly conducted by Robert Rodgers Korstad, Lisa Hazirjian, Karl Korstad, and Lane Windham, mostly with people employed by the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in Winston-Salem, N.C., in the first half of the 20th century, but especially in the 1940s. Many interviewees were active in the Food, Tobacco, Agricultural, and Allied Workers of America Local 22, but there are also interviews with anti-union interviewees, RJR officials, and people active in Local 10 in Greensboro, N.C. There is a special focus on work stoppages and the strikes of 1943 and 1947; other topics include the workings of Locals 22 and 10, living conditions in the Winston-Salem African American community, and the Communist Party's role in local events during this time. |
Date | 17 May (June?) 1990 |
Interviewee | Little, Annie. |
Interviewee occupation |
Factory workers Food service employees Labor leaders Labor union members |
Interviewee DOB | 1908 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Windham, Lane. |
Abstract | Cornelius Simmons; Little's introduction to FTA unions; Rev. Rooks, Annie Streeter; childhood; Export Tobacco; working for a school and losing her job while caring for her mother; work in a sorority house; work done by women during the leaf house off season; trouble collecting unemployment and social security; Bob Latham; mother's job; education; description of stemming; conflict with a foreman; continued disagreements with foreman; Robert Chick" Black; election for leaf house unions; description of location of plants; anti-union efforts." |
Subject Topical |
African Americans--North Carolina. Labor movement--North Carolina. Greenville (N.C.)--History. |
Subject Name |
Communist Party (N.C.) Food, Tobacco, Agricultural, and Allied Workers Union of America. |
Citation | Interview with Annie Little by Lane Windham, May 17, 1990 E-0136, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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Interview no. | E0136_Audio_1 |