Atlanta (Ga.)
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
ACTWU Summer Group and Marion "Peanut" Brown Interviews, 14 August 1990
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.
Joe Jacobs and Bill Winn Interviews, 19 July 1990
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.
Joe Jacobs and Ethel Barber Interviews
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.
Joyce Brookshire Interview
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.
Leroy McCoy, Ethel Barber, Lucy Callahan, and Joyce Brookshire Interviews
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."
Leroy McCoy Interview
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.
Leroy McCoy, Lucy Callahan, and Ethel Barber Interviews
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.
Lloyd Gossett, 16 July 1990
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.
Lloyd Gossett Interview 2, 16 July 1990
Gossett discusses working in the textile mill, the textile workers' strile of 1934, being blacklisted and other topics.
Marion "Peanut" Brown, 15 August 1990
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.
Marion "Peanut" Brown Interview 2
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.
Marion "Peanut" Brown, Joyce Brookshire, and Opal McMichael Interviews
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.