Thom Malcolm, Ollie Sharpe, R.A. and Ethel Atkin Interviews, 18 August 1991

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0464

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Thom Malcolm, Ollie Sharpe, R.A. and Ethel Atkin 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: 18 August 1991

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

Thom Malcom is related to several textile workers from Opelika, Ala. Ollie Sharpe is a former textile worker from Opelika, Ala. R.A. Atkin was a spinner who worked at Chiquola Manufacturing Company in Honea Path, S.C. He was an eyewitness of the murders in Honea Path. He is married to Ethel Atkins. Ethel Atkin was a textile worker at Chiquola Manufacturing Company in Honea Path, S.C. She is married to R.A. Atkins.

Extent

1 item(s) (video (29:31 duration))

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Abstract

Malcolm does cutaways for an interview he participated in. Sharpe discusses meeting Franklin D. Roosevelt and her anger at the term "linthead". R.A. Atkin and Ethel Atkin discuss working at Chiquola Manfacturing Company, unionization there and the impact of the eight-hour day, and the killings at Honea Path.