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Tennessee, East--Industries

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Kingsport Press Strike Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AppMs-0152
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...
Dates: 1961-1982

George C. Sells Papers

 Collection
Identifier: AppMs-0400
Scope and Contents The George C. Sells Papers contain general histories of the General Shale Products Corporation, a memorandum written by a company official, histories of two companies acquired by General Shale (the Locher Brick Company of Glasgow, Virginia, and the Chattahoochee Brick Company of Georgia), a speech by Douglas Whitlock presented at a brick industry meeting in 1962, a reprint of a magazine article about General Shale, and a master's thesis on the use of convict labor at the Chattahoochee Brick...
Dates: 1962-1991