Annie Honeycutt Interview 2

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0332

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Annie Honeycutt 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: 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

Annie Honeycutt was a textile worker at the Brown Mill in Concord, N.C.

Extent

1 item(s) (video (58:08 duration))

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Abstract

Honeycutt reads letters written by union leaders to various political leaders, including Franklin Delano Roosevelt. She also talks about the stretch-out system, working and health conditions in the mill, people being fired for joining the union at Cannon Manufacturing Company (which later acquired the Brown Mill), her husband's work for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), and mill work during World War II.