Skip to main content

OH 1613

About the Interviewee

IntervieweeIRELAND, Tennie (b. 1922)

About this oral history

Interview ID #OH 1613
Date(s) of interview
DescriptionFor the Texas Textile Mill Oral History Project. Former textile mill worker. Experiences Experiences growing up in McKinney; work career at Texas Textile Mill beginning at age thirteen; her experiences and other family members’ experiences at mill; experience in “mill block” housing; union organizing; memories of 1948 tornado that destroyed the McKinney mill and many other buildings in town; work career at Texas Instruments; opinions regarding practice of women’s unequal pay as compared to men’s for equal work at mill.
Interviewer(s)Deborah Kilgore
Physical Description39 pp.
Terms of UseOpen