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Judith Helfand and George Stoney Interview 2

 Item
Identifier: L1995-13_AV0118b

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

George Stoney was co-director of "The Uprising of '34" and a film professor at NYU. Judith Helfand was co-director of The Uprising of '34.

Extent

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

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Abstract

Stoney and Helfand discuss concerns they had while filming The Uprising of '34, how Judith, as a non-Southerner, was able to get people to open up, Judith's concerns about traveling in the South, how they worked with various institutions to find interview subjects, and other topics.

Repository Details

Part of the Special Collections Repository

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