Terry At Cafe Interview

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: Alright so you have your notes?

Segment Synopsis: Terry discusses what Cafe does in South Carolina and the opposition it faces from those in power.

Subjects: Nonprofit organizations

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: How are you structured? I mean you're a state wide organization, which means what?

Segment Synopsis: Terry discusses how Cafe is organized in South Carolina and the reason that many industries have been moving to the state.

Subjects: Nonprofit organizations; Textile industry; Working class--Education

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: So the industries that moved in that replaced textiles, were??

Segment Synopsis: Terry discusses how the automotive industry has taken over from the textile industry as the dominant industry in South Carolina, and about how the workers face many of the same issues in regards to their right.s

Subjects: Automobile industry and trade; Automobile supplies industry

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: So how would-- do you recall how Cafe became involved with the project?

Segment Synopsis: Terry discusses how Cafe got involved with showing the "Uprising of '34", the space that they showed the film at, and how it brought diverse audiences.

Subjects: Documentary films; Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: Wow, and what do you think the benefit of that screening was for you all?

Segment Synopsis: Terry discusses how the film screening expanded Cafe's membership.

Keywords: Honea Path murders

Subjects: Documentary films; Honea Path (S.C.); Nonprofit organizations

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: So you're touching on a lot of things. I mean you're touching on press, you're touching on access, um and you're touch on-- would you say people saw you in a different way?

Segment Synopsis: Terry discusses how the film screening changed perceptions about Cafe for good and ill, and why they chose to sponsor this film screening.

Subjects: Documentary films; Nonprofit organizations; Textile workers

Partial Transcript: TERRY: But the idea, I mean the thing that we came up against time and time again was that textile workers are very stand offish, their very closed, the don't want group, they don't want to organzie, you they're tough to organize.

Segment Synopsis: Terry discusses how the "Uprising of '34" reshaped her understand of textile workers and textile labor history.

Subjects: Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934); Textile workers