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Eula McGill Interview 9, 2 May 1994

 Item
Identifier: L1995-13_AV0769

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: 2 May 1994

Creator

Restrictions on Access

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

Biographical Note

Eula McGill was a labor organizer in Birmingham, Ala.

Extent

1 item(s) (video (57:13 duration))

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Abstract

McGill discusses the textile workers' strike of 1934, songs sung on the picket line, being blacklisted, the aftermath of the strike and her later work with labor unions.

Repository Details

Part of the Special Collections Repository

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