Marion "Peanut" Brown, Joyce Brookshire, and Opal McMichael Interviews

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0707

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Marion "Peanut" Brown, Joyce Brookshire, and Opal McMichael 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: 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.

Biographical Note

Marion "Peanut" Brown was a textile worker at Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill. Joyce Brookshire was involved with the redevelopment of Cabbagetown, a neighborhood in Atlanta, Ga. Opal McMichael was a textile worker at East Newnan Cotton Mill in Newnan, Ga.

Extent

1 item(s) (video (29:34 duration))

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Abstract

Brown and Brookshire discuss Cabbagetown's past and sing several songs. McMichael discusses her father and the farm they had, and why they came to work in the cotton mills.