Leroy McCoy, Ethel Barber, Lucy Callahan, and Joyce Brookshire Interviews

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0438

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Leroy McCoy, Ethel Barber, Lucy Callahan, and Joyce Brookshire 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: 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

Leroy McCoy was a textile worker at Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill in Atlanta, Ga. Ethel Barber was a spooler at Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill in Atlanta, Ga. Lucy Callahan was spinner at Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill in Atlanta, Ga. Joyce Brookshire was involved with the redevelopment of Cabbagetown, a neighborhood in Atlanta, Ga.

Extent

1 item(s) (video (28:03 duration))

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Abstract

McCoy, Barber, and Callahan discuss working at the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill, Eugene Talmadge, and living in Cabbagetown. Brookshire discusses the redevelopment of Cabbagetown in the 1990s and sings "The Ballad of Cabbagetown."