Clyde Ware and Doyle Johns Interviews, 8 August 1991
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Scope and Contents of 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: 8 August 1991
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
Clyde Ware was a textile worker in Gadsden, Ala. He was blacklisted after the textile workers' strike of 1934. Doyle Johns grew up in Gadsden, Ala. and was a doffer at Dwight Manufacturing Company.
Extent
1 item(s) (video (29:24 duration))
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Abstract
Ware discusses blacklisting at Dwight Manufacturing Company, the United Textile Workers Convention in New York City, the National Recovery Act and other topics. Johns discusses his interest in local history and the history of Dwight Manufacturing Company and Gadsden , Ala.
Subject
- Dwight Manufacturing Company (Organization)
Geographic
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections Repository
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