Mary Katherine DuBois Interview

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: Helen's full name?

MARY KATHERINE DUBOIS: Helen?

Segment Synopsis: Mary Katherine DuBois discusses the ways in which Cafe used historical events and culture to connect with their work of educating about workers' rights.

Keywords: union songs

Subjects: History; Nonprofit organizations; Tobacco workers--Labor unions

Partial Transcript: MARY KATHERINE DUBOIS: And then we decided that we need to go ahead and have a physical commemoration, not just this event but something that would be-- that would exist you know forever.

Segment Synopsis: Mary Katherine DuBois discusses how in the process of planning an event to commemorate a tobacco workers' strike the decision was made to permanently display plaque commemorating the event on the site,

Subjects: Strikes and lockouts; Tobacco industry; Tobacco workers--Labor unions

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: Wow, so you had this, who came to the event?

Segment Synopsis: Mary Katherine DuBois discusses an event that Cafe did to commemorate a tobacco workers' strike and how it helped them in their union organizing campaign with the food service employees at the Citadel.

Keywords: Labor Day

Subjects: Nonprofit organizations; Strikes and lockouts; Tobacco workers--Labor unions

Partial Transcript: MARY KATHERINE DUBOIS: And with the Citadel workers, they won a landmark, for South Carolina, a landmark labor contract that they're working on now.

Segment Synopsis: Mary Katherine DuBois discusses the work that Cafe has done in helping the food service workers at the Citadel organize.

Subjects: Food service employees--Labor unions

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: And did other people in the community come? I mean --

MARY KATHERINE DUBOIS: Yes.

Segment Synopsis: Mary Katherine DuBois discuss the attendees of the event commemorating the tobacco workers' strike and the impact that the event had.

Subjects: Local government; Nonprofit organizations

Partial Transcript: MARY KATHERINE DUBOIS: We are also trying to gather money together to have a sculpture made.

Segment Synopsis: Mary Katherine Dubois discusses a statue that is in the planning stages, and sums up the event

Subjects: Nonprofit organizations; Strikes and lockouts

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: Right

F1: The only sort of person I would connect it too, cause I was sort of connected to the chapter--

HELFAND: Right

Segment Synopsis: An unidentified woman connects the impact of the "Uprising of '34" on the work of Cafe in Charleston.

Keywords: union organizing

Subjects: Documentary films; History; Nonprofit organizations