Burns Cox and James Hoffman Interviews, 6 August 1991

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0486

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Burns Cox and James Hoffman 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: 6 August 1991

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

Burns Cox was a textile worker at Dwight Manufacturing Company in Gadsden, Ala. James Hoffman is a local historian in Gadsden, Ala.

Extent

1 item(s) (video (28:43 duration))

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Abstract

Cox goes to an archive and looks at the charter for the Dixie Federation of Labor, a textile workers' union that existed locally Gadsden, Ala. prior to the strike. Hoffman discusses the sources he used for his thesis on the textile workers' strike of 1934, the unwillingness of people to discuss the strike, and why he chose to research this topic.