Kathy Lamb, Robert Lamb and James Hughes Interview

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0354

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Kathy Lamb, Robert Lamb and James Hughes 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: 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

Kathy Lamb's father witnessed the 1934 strike at the Chiquola Mill. Lamb led the effort to erect a memorial to the mill workers who were slain during the strike. Robert Lamb is the husband of Kathy Lamb and a night watchman at a textile mill. James Hughes was an eyewitness to the deaths of the mill workers at Chiquola Mill in Honea Path, N.C.

Extent

1 item(s) (video (1:59:57 duration))

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Abstract

Kathy Lamb, Robert Lamb, and Hughes discuss the deaths during the textile workers' strike of 1934, why the town has forgotten this event, the impact of the deaths on further attempts to organize textile workers in and around Honea Path, and other topics.