Angie Rossner, Fred Fussel, and Doris Shavers Interviews, 24 July 1990

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Identifier: L1995-13-AV0741

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Angie Rossner, Fred Fussel, and Doris Shavers 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: 24 July 1990

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

Angie Rossner was a textile worker and a union organizer for ACTWU. Doris Shavers was a spinner in textile mills in Columbus, Ga. Fred Fussel worked for a museum in Columbus, Ga.

Extent

1 item(s) (video (30:49 duration))

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Abstract

Rossner discusses her work as a weaver. Shavers discusses the textile workers' strike of 1934. Fussel discusses the creation of the exhibit Chattahoochee Legacy and shows the exhibit to several textile workers.