Opal McMichael Interview, 16 August 1990

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0446

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Opal McMichael Interview

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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: 16 August 1990

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

Opal McMichael was a textile worker at East Newnan Cotton Mill in Newnan, Ga.

Extent

1 item(s) (video (29:27 duration))

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Abstract

McMichael discusses her family's move from their farm to the cotton mill village, attitudes in Newnan about unionization, the imprisonment of strikers, and the aftermath of the strike.