Nanny Leah Washburn Interview 4, 17 July 1990

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0729

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Nanny Leah Washburn Interview 4

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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

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

Nanny Leah Washburn was a mill worker and a communist union organizer in Atlanta, Ga. Anne Romaine was a folksinger, songwriter, activist, and history professor. She grew up in rural North Carolina. Her grandparents worked in the Gastonia Cotton Mills, and Anne developed a lifelong interest in the lives of cotton mill workers.

Extent

1 item(s) (video (24:55 duration))

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Abstract

Washburn discussses her childhood, going to work in the textile mills, the textile workers' strike of 1934, her interest in the Communist party and other topics.