Interview with Causby Reynolds, June 30, 1987
Project: Women and Collective Protest Oral History Project
Interview Summary
Reynolds talks about her daily routine as a nurse's aide at Pikeville Methodist Hospital. She explains the details about the strike. She talks about handing out pamphlets, creating roadblocks, boycotting businesses, and their interactions with the strikebreakers. She talks about people who helped with the strike, and the friendships she formed on the picket line. She talks about her family and household management during the strike. She talks about returning to work after the strike. She discusses how the strike affected Pike County.Interview Accession
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Women in the labor movement Medicine--Rural Strikes and lockouts--Kentucky Medical care--Kentucky Community development Medicine, Rural Rural health--Kentucky Rural health services Labor unions--Organizing Strikes and lockouts Women political activists Picketing. Protest and social movements Protest movements.Interview Rights
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Reynolds, Causby Interview by Sally Ward Maggard. 30 Jun. 1987. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Reynolds, C. (1987, June 30). Interview by S. W. Maggard. Women and Collective Protest Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Reynolds, Causby, interview by Sally Ward Maggard. June 30, 1987, Women and Collective Protest Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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