Myrtle Jones and Larry Blatney Interview, 30 July 1994
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Scope and Contents of 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: 30 July 1994
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
Myrtle Jones was a textile worker at Cannon Mills in Concord, N.C. Larry Blatney was a textile worker at Cannon Mills in Concord, N.C.
Extent
1 item(s) (video (56:33 duration))
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Abstract
Jones and Blatney discuss a letter that Jones' father wrote to Franklin Roosevelt in 1933 protesting violations of the minimum wage laws, working conditions for African Americans in the cotton mills, segregation, and other topics.
Subject
- Cannon Mills Company (Organization)
Geographic
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections Repository
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