Nanny Leah Washburn and D.W. Brooks Interviews, 17 July 1990

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0606

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Nanny Leah Washburn and D.W. Brooks 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: 17 July 1990

Creator

Brooks, D. W. (David William), 1901-1999 (Interviewee, Person)

Restrictions on Access

All of the interviews are available online in GSU's Digital Collections.

Biographical Note

Nanny Leah Washburn was a mill worker and a communist union organizer in Atlanta, Ga. D.W. Brooks was an economist and farmer who founded multiple farming cooperatives and was an adviser to multiple presidents.

Extent

1 item(s) (video (29:46 duration))

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Abstract

Washburn discusses working conditions in the textile mills, and being on trial. Brooks discusses the economic conditions of the South from Reconstruction to the Great Depression, farming practices in the region, the movement of the textile industry from the Northeast to the South, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and his work with farming cooperatives.