Opal McMichael and Roy Calhoun Interviews

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0405

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Opal McMichael and Roy Calhoun 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 / Historical

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

Extent

1 item(s) (audio (1:13:17 duration))

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Abstract

McMichael discusses the textile workers' strike of 1934, life in the mill village, and other topics. Calhoun discusses working in the textile mills, the textile workers' strike of 1934, perceptions of cotton mill workers and other topics.