Interviewee | IRELAND, Tennie (b. 1922) |
Interview ID # | OH 1613 |
Date(s) of interview | |
Description | For 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 Description | 39 pp. |
Terms of Use | Open |