Reading letters from textile workers to government agencies

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0135

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Reading letters from textile workers to government agencies

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Scope and Contents of the Collection

From the Collection:

The Uprising of '34 Collection demonstrates how communities can be impacted in contemporary ways by history and memory, decades after a series of events occur. Veterans of the events of 1934 and their descendants-black, white, mill worker, manager, union, and non-union- were interviewed about mill village life, work conditions, southern contemporaneous culture as well as the strike itself. This finding aid describes the digitized oral history-style interviews available in Georiga State University Library's Digital Collections.

Dates

Creation: 1987-1995

Creator

From the Collection: Stoney, George C. (Person)
From the Collection: Helfand, Judith (Person)

Restrictions on Access

All of the interviews are available online in GSU's Digital Collections.

Extent

1 item(s) (video (58:40 duration))

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Abstract

This video consists of several unidentified people reading letters written by textile workers between 1933 and 1934 to various people and agencies in Washington DC. The letters focus on conditions in the textile mills, the stretch-out, violations of the National Recovery Act and other topics.