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Don McKee and Sol Stetin Interview 3, 1 December 1990

 Item
Identifier: L1995-13_AV0632

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

Restrictions on Access

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

Biographical Note

Don McKee was a union organizer for the Textile Workers Union of America and a professor at Upsala College. 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.

Extent

1 item(s) (video (24:31 duration))

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Abstract

McKee and Stetin watch newsreel footage of the textile workers' strike of 1934 and discuss attitudes about the strike and the labor movement.

Repository Details

Part of the Special Collections Repository

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