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audio/mpeg  sh19j-shannon-01.mp3 (40MB) | Joseph James Shannon Oral History 1 | mp3 audio |
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audio/mpeg sh19j-shannon-04.mp3 (18MB) | Joseph James Shannon Oral History 4 | mp3 audio |
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audio/mpeg sh19j-shannon-03.mp3 (21MB) | Joseph James Shannon Oral History 3 | mp3 audio |
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audio/mpeg sh19j-shannon-02.mp3 (21MB) | Joseph James Shannon Oral History 2 | mp3 audio |
Description
| Title: | Joseph James Shannon Oral History |
| Author(s): | Shannon, Joseph James |
| Contributor(s): | Herndon, Barbara |
| Subject(s): | Oral history
Shannon, Joseph James (b. 1900) |
| Abstract: | Shannon, coal miner, discusses activities of the United Mine Worker's union in southern Illinois: its organization and administration, elections, finances, contracts, members and offices; union conflicts, strikes and violence; John L. Lewis and the local, national, and international UMW; districts and meetings. He also discusses coal mining in Zeigler and West Frankfort, Illinois: work as a trapper, mule driver, and mine examiner, shifts and wages, coal types, and electricity in the mines. Interview by Barbara Herndon, 1976-77. 4 tapes, 350 mins. |
| Issue Date: | 1976 |
| Citation Info: | Shannon, Joseph James. Oral History. Barbara Herndon, interviewer. Oral History Collection, Archives/Special Collections, Brookens Library, University of Illinois at Springfield. |
| Genre: | Sound Recording (oral) |
| Type: | Audio |
| Language: | English |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2142/48811 |
| Other Identifier(s): | SH19J |
| Publication Status: | unpublished |
| Peer Reviewed: | not peer reviewed |
| Rights Information: | Board of Trustees, University of Illinois |
| Date Available in IDEALS: | 2014-04-04 |
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Oral Histories - Untranscribed - UIS
Oral history interviews that lack a transcript