Grady Kilgro, Eula McGill and Burns Cox Interview, 7 August 1991

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0476

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Grady Kilgro, Eula McGill and Burns Cox Interview

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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: 7 August 1991

Creator

McGill, Eula, 1911-2003 (Interviewee, Person)

Restrictions on Access

All of the interviews are available online in GSU's Digital Collections.

Biographical Note

Grady Kilgro was a spinner at the Dwight Manufacturing Company in Gasden, Ala. Eula McGill was a labor organizer in Birmingham, Ala. Burns Cox was a textile worker at Dwight Manufacturing Company in Gasden, Ala.

Extent

1 item(s) (video (30:50 duration))

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Abstract

Kilgro, McGill, and Cox discuss living in the mill village, company control of mill villages, Labor Day parades, the textile workers' strike of 1934, labor organizing, and the closing of the Dwight Manufacturing Company.