Oral history interview with Tennie Ireland, 2006 November 14.

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Oral history interview with Tennie Ireland, 2006 November 14.

Interview with Tennie Ireland, former textile mill worker, concerning her 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.

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University of North Texas. Oral History Collection.

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Texas Textile Mill Oral History Project.

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Ireland, Tennie, 1922-

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Kilgore, Deborah

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