James Hoffman Interview 2, 6 August 1991

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0485

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James Hoffman Interview 2

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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

James Hoffman is a local historian in Gadsden, Ala.

Extent

1 item(s) (video (28:45 duration))

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Abstract

Hoffman discusses the relationship between the textile workers' strike in Gadsden, Ala., and in the rest of the nation, what employees at Dwight Manufacturing Company wanted from the strike, how unions were perceived in Gadsden, the lack of a strike fund, paternalism, and why it is difficult to tell this history in Gadsden.