Kingsport Press Strike Collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: AppMs-0152

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The Kingsport Press Strike Collection contains correspondence, reports, pamphlets, photocopies of articles taken from commercial publications, newspaper clippings, speeches, cassette audiotapes, memorabilia, and broadsides documenting the events surrounding the strike between Kingsport Press and its unions between 1961 and 1967. The correspondence and speeches describe events leading up to the strike, chronicles union activities during the strike, and identifies the problems surrounding the unsuccessful resolution of the labor dispute. The reports document specific union issues that served as the progenitors for the strike. The pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and photocopies of articles define the general issues and describe the activities surrounding the Kingsport Press strike. The two 60-minute audio cassette tapes (dated April 27, 1982) contain an interview with Earl Derrick about the Kingsport Press strike.

Dates

1961-1982

Creator

Larkin, Dale K., 1955- (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research.

Extent

0.50 linear feet (1 Hollinger box, 2 cassette audiotapes)

2.00 sound recordings

1.00 Boxes

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Arrangement

The collection is divided into four series: Series 1, Correspondence, Reports and Speeches, 1963-1965; Series 2, Pamphlets and Broadsides, 1963-1965; Series 3, Articles, Memorabilia and Newspaper Clippings, 1964-1966; and Series 4, Cassette Tapes, 1982.