Phenix City (Ala.)
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Angie Rossner and Aunt Doris Interviews, 23 July 1990
Rossner goes through her before work routine, discusses Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) and drives to her job at a textile mill. Rossner and Aunt Doris discuss Doris's childhood, her memories of the textile workers strike of 1934, and her husband's involvement in a union.
Cleveland Walton and Richard Allen Interview, 21 July 1990
Walton and Allen discuss working in the textile mill, segregation in the mills, segregation in the mill village, the Ku Klux Klan, and retirement.
Cleveland Walton, Clara Smith, Angie Rosner, Don Rodgers, Interviews and ACTWU local 1855 meeting, 22 July 1990
Walton and Smith discuss the attempts at unionization in the 1930s and how they impacted union organization in the 1990s. Rosner and Rodgers discuss the layout for a union newsletter. Rosner, Rodgers, Harris, Long, Gulligan, Roosevelt, Reese, and various other unidentified union members participate in a meeting discussing various events as well as the company's desire to go to on twelve hour shifts.
Ernest Hannah and Bessie Hannah Interview
Ernest Hannah and Bessie Hannah discuss working in the textile mill, the textile workers' strike of 1934, the music they performed, and other topics.
Joe Jacobs, Roy Wade, Don Rodgers, and Angie Rodgers Interview 1, 29 December 1991
Jacobs, Wade, Don Rodgers and Angie Rodgers discuss United Textile Workers of America (UTWA) activity after the textile workers' strike 1934, how the union did not leave various Southern towns,and the legal struggles that the UTWA faced.
Joe Jacobs, Roy Wade, Don Rodgers, Angie Rodgers Interview 2, 29 December 1991
Jacobs, Wade, Don Rodgers and Angie Rodgers discuss United Textile Workers of America (UTWA) activity after the textile workers' strike of 1934, how the union did not leave various Southern towns, and the legal struggles that the UTWA faced.