A.J. Whittenberg, James Allen and Nealy Family Interview, 30 July 1994

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0373

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A.J. Whittenberg, James Allen and Nealy Family Interview

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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: 30 July 1994

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

A.J. Whittenberg was from Greenville, S.C. James Allen was from Greenville, S.C. The unidentified women from the Nealy family are from Greenville, S.C.

Extent

1 item(s) (video (57:02 duration))

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Abstract

In this interview Whittenberg, Allen, and the women discuss a letter Elrod Nealy wrote to General Johnson, what life was like in Greenville during Jim Crow, and the impact of the New Deal and the NRA on African Americans.