Almeda Erickson, Opal McMichael, Frank Gosset, and Zelda Gosset Interviews

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0754

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Almeda Erickson, Opal McMichael, Frank Gosset, and Zelda Gosset 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

Almeda Erickson and Opal McMichael were textile mill workers in Lavonia, Georgia at the East Newnan Cotton Mill. Frank and Zelda Gosset were textile mill workers in Lavonia, Georgia.

Extent

1 item(s) (video (29:02 duration))

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Abstract

Almeda Erickson and Opal McMichael discuss life in as female mill workers, courting, radio, living in mill villages, and strikes. They discuss village life with company homes and stores, wages, debt to the company, and children in the mills.