Cynthia Chattis and Charlie Jordan Interview

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0724

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Cynthia Chattis and Charlie Jordan 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: 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 / Historical

Cynthia Chattis was a textile worker and union organizer from Cooleemee, N.C. Charlie Jordan was a textile worker and industrial engineer from Cooleemee, N.C.

Extent

1 item(s) (video (29:45 duration))

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Abstract

Chattis and Jordan discuss the history of unionization in Cooleemee, working in the textile mills, the textile workers' strike of 1934, life in the mill village, and other topics.