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Reverend Frank Miller Interview 2

 Item
Identifier: L1995-13_AV0292

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

Restrictions on Access

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

Biographical Note

Rev. Frank Miller was a weaver and a loom fixer at Cannon Mills in Concord, N.C. He was in Local 1902. He left the mill and became a Baptist preacher in later life. Ellen Miller is Rev. Miller's second wife.

Extent

1 item(s) (video (58:58 duration))

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Abstract

Rev. Miller discusses life in the mill village, his work at Cannon Mills, the 1934 strike, organizing the local of the union and his Baptist faith.

Subject

Repository Details

Part of the Special Collections Repository

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