Cynthia Chattis, unidentified woman, and Charlie Jordan Interviews, 25 August 1990

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0726

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Cynthia Chattis, unidentified woman, and Charlie Jordan 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: 25 August 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

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. The unidentified woman in this video is Cynthia Chattis's grandmother.

Extent

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

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Abstract

Cynthia Chattis shows her grandmother photographs and asks her to explain them. Chattis and her grandmother discuss her experiences working in a mill in Cooleemee, N.C., domestic workers employed by mill workers' families, prejudice against mill workers, and various people and things in the photographs. Cynthia Chattis asks Charlie Jordan (her father?) questions about life in the mill village, his participation in a time study, the 1934 strike, and other topics.