Angie Rossner and Aunt Doris Interviews, 23 July 1990

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0515

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Angie Rossner and Aunt Doris Interviews

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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: 23 July 1990

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.

Biographical Note

Angie Rossner was textile worker and a union organizer for ACTWU. Aunt Doris was a textile worker.

Extent

1 item(s) (video (26:41 duration))

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Abstract

Rossner goes through her before work routine, discusses Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) and drives to her job at a textile mill. Rossner and Aunt Doris discuss Doris's childhood, her memories of the textile workers strike of 1934, and her husband's involvement in a union.