Maddie Rainwater, Maurine Rainwater, Mildred Rainwater, and Etta Mae Zimmerman Interviews

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0780

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Maddie Rainwater, Maurine Rainwater, Mildred Rainwater, and Etta Mae Zimmerman 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 Note

Maddie, Mildred, and Maurine Rainwater were textile workers in East Newnan, Ga. Etta Mae Zimmerman was a textile worker and union member from Hogansville, Ga.

Extent

1 item(s) (audio (1:31:02 duration))

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Abstract

Maddie Rainwater, Maurine Rainwater, and Mildred Rainwater discuss working in the cotton mill, the impact of the eight-hour day, the textile workers' strike of 1934 and other topics. An unidentified man and an unidentified woman discuss the textile workers' strike of 1934, while watching a newsreel. Etta Mae Zimmerman discusses working in the cotton mill, her family, the textile workers' strike of 1934, being imprisoned in Fort McPherson and other topics.