Don McKee and Sol Stetin Interview 2, 1 December 1990

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0553

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Don McKee and Sol Stetin Interview 2

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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: 1 December 1990

Creator

Stetin, Sol, 1910-2005 (Interviewee, Person)
McKee, Don, 1916- (Interviewee, Person)

Restrictions on Access

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

Biographical Note

Sol Stetin was a union organizer who organized J.P. Stevens textile company and merged the Textile Workers' Union into the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union. Don McKee was a union organizer for the Textile Workers Union of America and a professor at Upsala College.

Extent

1 item(s) (video (29:16 duration))

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Abstract

Stetin discusses the 1934 United Textile Workers of America Convention. McKee and Stetin discuss the impact that the textile workers' strike of 1934 had on later unionization campaigns, the impact of the CIO on Franklin Roosevelt's presidency, anti-union violence and other topics.