Myrtle Jones, Larry Blatney and Dee Neely Interviews, 30 July 1994

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0378

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Myrtle Jones, Larry Blatney and Dee Neely 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: 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. Dee Neely grew up in Cooleemee, N.C.

Extent

1 item(s) (video (56:26 duration))

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Abstract

Jones and Blatney discuss the strike, and the letter Jones's father wrote to Franklin Roosevelt. Neely discusses a letter written to Washington, D.C. in which the African American workers at Irving Mill in Cooleemee, N.C.