Doris Wilson Interview

Partial Transcript: DORIS WILSON: I'm doing well.

JUDITH HELDFAND: Good, good.

Segment Synopsis: Doris Wilson discusses what issues face workers in South Carolina in the 1990s, and how they used the Uprising of '34 to discuss issues.

Keywords: legacy of the strike

Subjects: Education; History--Study and teaching; Spartanburg (S.C.)

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: Okay why don't you tell me specifically how you, how you're chapter used this film and your take on it.

Segment Synopsis: Doris Wilson discusses how she has used the Uprising of '34 in labor education.

Subjects: Documentary films

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: So why don't you tell me from how like your chapter used the Uprising of '34 in pretty specific ways.

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: What's the status of the Spartanburg case now?

Segment Synopsis: Doris Wilson discuss issues surrounding a law suit between her organizational and Spartanburg Tech in regards to a canceled class.

Subjects: Documentary films

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: You've lived in South Carolina, you grew up in a mill village right?

Segment Synopsis: Doris Wilson discusses events that were held in South Carolina around the film showing, and why they did not necessarily lead to anything else.

Keywords: mill villages

Subjects: Honea Path (S.C.); Nonprofit organizations; Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)

Partial Transcript: DORIS WILSON: I think that in the white working class community people are more shy about organizing in their own community.

Segment Synopsis: Doris Wilson discusses how working class whites don't feel comfortable organizing in their communities, and how people may not have connected the strike in 1934 to present conditions in the textile mills, in spite of viewing the "Uprising of '34".

Subjects: Textile workers

Partial Transcript: DORIS WILSON: Well I still have the feelings that I had that we talked about originally, that I would like to see the racial aspect of the film dealt with more.

Segment Synopsis: Doris Wilson discusses how she wished race and relationships between various black and white communities had been explored in more depth, and the reaction in black community to the film.

Keywords: African-American mill workers; domestic workers; mill villages

Subjects: African Americans--Segregation; Textile workers; Working class African Americans

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: Do you have anything else to add?

Segment Synopsis: Doris Wilson discusses what worked about the "Uprising of '34" and the film's partnership with Cafe.

Subjects: Documentary films; Nonprofit organizations