Etta Mae Zimmerman, Thom Malcolm, and Mr. Sharpe Interviews, 17 August 1991

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0450

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Etta Mae Zimmerman, Thom Malcolm, and Mr. Sharpe 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 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

Etta Mae Zimmerman was a textile worker and union member from Hogansville, Ga. Thom Malcom is related to several textile workers from Opelika, Ala. Mr. Sharpe was a textile worker and union member from Opelika, Ala.

Extent

1 item(s) (video (30:09 duration))

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Abstract

Zimmerman discusses the 1934 textile workers' strike, her internment at Fort McPherson in Atlanta, Ga., strikers being evicted from mill housing, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and other topics. Thom Malcolm talks with an unidentified woman about her mother, who worked in the mill at age 14. They discuss working conditions in the mill, and child labor. Sharpe discusses being deputized at age 14 to keep the strikers out of Opelika, Ala., his career in the textile mills, and how he became pro-union in his later years.