Dee Neely and Kathy Lamb Interviews, 1 August 1994

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0379

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Dee Neely and Kathy Lamb 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: 1 August 1994

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

Dee Neely grew up in Cooleemee, N.C. Kathy Lamb's father witnessed the 1934 strike at the Chiquola Mill. Lamb led the effort to erect a memorial to the mill workers who were slain during the strike.

Extent

1 item(s) (video (57:14 duration))

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Abstract

Neely discusses a letter written by the employees of Irving Mills in Cooleemee, N.C., organizing for labor and civil rights in Cooleemee, and other topics. Lamb looks at several newspapers from around Honea Path, S.C. at the time of the strike, while reading ones that have to do with the deaths at Chiquola Mills.