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Leander Zimmerman Interview 1, 6 June 1991

 Item
Identifier: L1995-13_AV0493

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: 6 June 1991

Creator

Restrictions on Access

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

Biographical Note

Leander Zimmerman worked in various textile mills as doffer and in the card room. Zimmerman left the mills and became a barber. He is also related to Etta Mae Zimmerman.

Extent

1 item(s) (video (22:40 duration))

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Abstract

Zimmerman discusses the internment of strikers at Fort McPherson, blacklisting, and working in the mills.

Repository Details

Part of the Special Collections Repository

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