Cynthia Chattis, Charlie Jordan, Jim Chattis, Carrie Chattis and Harold Foster Interviews

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0403

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Cynthia Chattis, Charlie Jordan, Jim Chattis, Carrie Chattis and Harold Foster 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

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. Jim Chattis was a textile worker in Cooleemee, N.C. Carrie Chattis was a textile worker in Cooleemee, N.C.

Extent

1 item(s) (audio (1:36:35 duration))

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Abstract

Cynthia Chattis and Charlie Jordan discuss the textile workers' strike of 1934, unions in Cooleemee, segregation in the textile mills, the mill villages and a strike that happened in Cooleemee after 1934. Carrie Chattis and Jim Chattis discuss the textile workers' strike of 1934, living in the mill village, a later strike in Cooleemee, and other topics. Foster discusses the textile workers' strike of 1934 and its impact on Cooleemee's unionization.