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Clyde Ware and Doyle Johns Interviews, 8 August 1991

 Item
Identifier: L1995-13_AV0491

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: 8 August 1991

Creator

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.

Repository Details

Part of the Special Collections Repository

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