Joseph Wynn Interview

Partial Transcript: People conversing inaudibly
JUDITH HELFAND: Okay Mr. Wynn is going to tell us a story now.

Segment Synopsis: Joseph Wynn discusses the jobs at the that were opening to African Americans during the 1930s.

Keywords: African-American mill workers

Subjects: Textile factories; Textile workers

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: They wrote this letter back when, um, it was right after the National Recovery act had gone in.

Segment Synopsis: Joseph Wynn discusses why African American mill workers who writing to inform the Federal Goverment about illegal labor practices did not sign their names.

Keywords: African-American mill workers; eight hour workday

Subjects: United States. National Recovery Administration

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: Now did you, did your momma or any of the people that you knew work in the mill village?

Segment Synopsis: Joseph Wynn discusses the domestic work African American women did in the white mill village, they wages they made, and wages in the mill.

Keywords: domestic workers

Subjects: African American women; Wages; Working class African Americans

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: Was there a lot of favoritism in the mills among how the white employees got hired?

Segment Synopsis: Joseph Wynn discusses working in the mill and the wages he made, as well as the segregation in the mills.

Keywords: African-American mill workers

Subjects: African Americans--Segregation; Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934); Wages

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: Now do you think that most of these men that were working here that their family-- that their wives or their mothers worked for the families on the mill hill?

Segment Synopsis: Judith Helfand asks Joseph Wynn if he can help her find the unnamed strikers who wrote the federal government about labor law violations.

Keywords: African-American mill workers

Subjects: Working class African Americans