R.A. Atkin and Ethel Atkin Interview, 18 August 1991

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0666

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R.A. Atkin and Ethel Atkin Interview

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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: 18 August 1991

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

R.A. Atkin was a spinner who worked at Chiquola Manufacturing Company in Honea Path, S.C. He was an eyewitness of the murders in Honea Path. He is married to Ethel Atkins. Ethel Atkin was a textile worker at Chiquola Manufacturing Company in Honea Path, S.C. She was married to R.A. Atkins.

Extent

1 item(s) (video (29:13 duration))

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Abstract

R.A. Atkin and Ethel Atkin discuss the textile workers' strike of 1934, the deaths at Chiquola Manufacturing Company, the impact of those deaths and other topics. An unidentified man talks about the deaths at Chiquola Manufacturing Company and his experiences working in the textile mills.