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Susan Plyler Interview 1, 21 August 1991

 Item
Identifier: L1995-13_AV0528

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: 21 August 1991

Creator

Restrictions on Access

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

Biographical Note

Susan Plyler was a textile worker in Kannapolis, N.C. and involved with the Piedmont Peace Project.

Extent

1 item(s) (video (30:12 duration))

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Abstract

Plyler discusses growing up in the textile mill village, the relationship between the mill owner and the mill workers, learning about the textile workers' striker of 1934, how Kannapolis dealt with the pain of the strike, and her work with the Piedmont Peace Project.

Subject

Repository Details

Part of the Special Collections Repository

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