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Irving Mills (Cooleemee, N.C.)

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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Dee Neely and Kathy Lamb Interviews, 1 August 1994

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0379
Abstract

Neely discusses a letter written by the employees of Irving Mills in Cooleemee, N.C., organizing for labor and civil rights in Cooleemee, and other topics. Lamb looks at several newspapers from around Honea Path, S.C. at the time of the strike, while reading ones that have to do with the deaths at Chiquola Mills.

Dates: 1 August 1994

Myrtle Jones, Larry Blatney and Dee Neely Interviews, 30 July 1994

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0378
Abstract

Jones and Blatney discuss the strike, and the letter Jones's father wrote to Franklin Roosevelt. Neely discusses a letter written to Washington, D.C. in which the African American workers at Irving Mill in Cooleemee, N.C.

Dates: 30 July 1994

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Concord (N.C.) 1
Honea Path (S.C.) 1