Old Acquaintance Reunion, 9 June 1991

Item

Identifier: L1995-13_AV0500

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Old Acquaintance Reunion

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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: 9 June 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

Ollie Denton was a cotton mill worker in East Newnan, Ga. 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. Etta Mae Zimmerman was a textile worker and union member from Hogansville, Ga.

Extent

1 item(s) (video (27:59 duration))

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Abstract

The first 15 minutes of the video is a recording of various attendants at a cotton mill reunion. Denton discusses working in the textile mills and the textile workers' strike of 1934. Leander Zimmerman discusses the textile workers' strike of 1934 and working as a barber.