Atlanta (Ga.)

The first part of this video is of several ACTWU workers. They discuss their childhoods and the textile workers' strike of 1934. In the second part of this video, Marion Brown discusses growing up in the Cabbagetown neighborhood of Atlanta, working at the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill, and the textile workers' strike of 1934.

Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill was formed from the dissolution of a business partnership between Jacob Elsas and Isaac May in 1889. In 1978, the mill was shut down. The collection includes a May 1964 issue of Fulton Cotton Mills News, negatives, photographs, product catalogue, and correspondence, 1881, 1978, undated.

Research files and conference planning materials, circa 1972-1998, created and gathered by Gary M. Fink, historian of the American Labor movement. This collection is unprocessed.

Jacobs discusses the activities of the United Textile Workers of America at the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill during the textile workers' strike of 1934, and how Cabbagetown has changed during the intervening 56 years. Winn discusses the history of the textile mills in Columbus, Ga., his family background and the time he spent working at the Muscogee Manufacturing Company.

Jacobs discusses the textile workers' strike of 1934, supplying food to strikers, and a court case he was involved in. Barber discusses the textile workers' strike of 1934 at the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill.

Brookshire discusses growing up in Cabbagetown and the revitalization of the neighborhood. The second half of the video consists of an interview with an unidentified man and woman about how the man's father, a store keeper, helped strikers during the textile workers' strike of 1934, and the neighborhood.

McCoy, Barber, and Callahan discuss working at the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill, Eugene Talmadge, and living in Cabbagetown. Brookshire discusses the redevelopment of Cabbagetown in the 1990s and sings "The Ballad of Cabbagetown."

McCoy discusses his career at the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill, mill working conditions, African Americans working in the mill, the mill baseball team, and bootlegging.

McCoy discusses how Cabbagetown got its name. McCoy, Callahan, and Barber discuss working at Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill, the textile workers' strike of 1934, living in the mill village and other topics.

Gossett discusses his opinion of Francis Gorman, union organizing in the South, the disenfranchisement of textile workers, Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill, and other topics.

Gossett discusses working in the textile mill, the textile workers' strile of 1934, being blacklisted and other topics.

Brown discusses working at the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill, growing up in Atlanta, the textile workers' strike of 1934, the Ku Klux Klan and other topics.

Brown discusses working at the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill in Atlanta, Ga., his music, racial tensions in Atlanta, the textile workers' strike of 1934, and other topics.

Brown and Brookshire discuss Cabbagetown's past and sing several songs. McMichael discusses her father and the farm they had, and why they came to work in the cotton mills.

This collection consists of transcripts of interviews Melvin Jones conducted with former employees of the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills in Atlanta, Ga. regarding working conditions and union activity.