Cynthia Chattis, Charlie Jordan, and Union workshop Interviews, 25 August 1990

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0012

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Cynthia Chattis, Charlie Jordan, and Union workshop 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.

Extent

1 item(s) (audio (1:00:11 duration))

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Abstract

Chattis and Jordan discuss Jordan's childhood, career and the roles of politics and religion in the mills. The second half of the video has Chattis at a union meeting where the various union members discuss the textile workers' strike of 1934, their education on the union, perceptions of the union in the media and other topics.