Thornburgh, Lucille
Description
Thornburgh discusses her involvement, as a woman, in leading a labor movement in Knoxville, Tenn., the accusation of being a Communist, African Americans and women in the labor movement, and the people and organizations she came in contact with through her union efforts.Lucille Thornburgh was a textile worker and union organizer in Knoxville, Tenn.
Video
Stoney, George CHelfand, Judith, 1964Stoney, James B
Record Contributed By
Georgia State UniversityRecord Harvested From
Digital Library of GeorgiaKeywords
- Advisory Boards
- African Americans
- Amalgamated Clothing And Textile Workers Union
- Assertiveness In Women
- Blacklisting, Labor
- Central Labor Councils
- Communism
- Discrimination
- Employees
- Employment
- Glove Industry
- Labor Unions
- Labor Unions And Communism
- Law Enforcement
- Leadership In Women
- National Guard Association Of The United States
- Older Women
- Picketing
- Political Activity
- Political Participation
- Sacco Vanzetti Trial (Dedham, Massachusetts : 1921)
- Segregation
- Segregation In Transportation
- Sex Discrimination Against Women
- Social Conditions
- Social Life And Customs
- Textile Workers
- United States
- Wages
- Women
- Women And Religion
- Women Blue Collar Workers
- Women Employees
- Women In Community Organization
- Women In Journalism
- Women In Nonprofit Organizations
- Women In Public Life
- Women In The Labor Movement
- Women Labor Leaders
- Women Labor Union Members
- Women Political Activists
- Women Textile Workers
