Hogansville (Ga.)

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Lindsey discusses her childhood, moving from the farm to mill village, going to work in the mills as a child, her husband, and Homer Welch.

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Corinne Lindsey discusses her and her husband's relationship to Homer Welch, and Welch's union organizing activities. She also discusses strikers' imprisonment at Fort McPherson near Atlanta, and the criticism they received from townspeople in Hogansville.

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Parham and Zimmerman discuss Zimmerman's internment at Fort McPherson, spying in the mill village and the impact of the textile workers' strike of 1934.

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Zimmerman and Parham discuss Zimmerman's imprisonment at Fort McPherson, union organizing, their father, politics and other topics.

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Zimmerman and Parham discuss the textile workers' strike of 1934, Zimmerman's interment at Fort McPherson, their childhood and other topics.

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Zimmerman shows pictures of her family and tells the interviewer about individual members of her family. Wood talks about working in a textile mill as a creeler, a doffer, and a timekeeper.

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Etta Mae Zimmerman, Robert Zimmerman and an unidentified man discuss the textile workers' strike of 1934, working in the textile mill, and the aftermath of the strike.

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Etta Mae Zimmerman and Roger Zimmerman discuss the textile workers' strike of 1934, the imprisonment of the strikers at Fort McPherson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and other topics.

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Zimmerman discusses life as a textile worker and union member, and the repercussions she and her family encountered as a result of the union.

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Zimmerman discusses the internment of union members at Fort McPherson, newspaper and newsreel coverage of the internment at Fort McPherson, her childhood, the Great Depression, and life in the mill village.

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Zimmerman discusses her family, work in the textile mills, and life in the textile village. Two unidentifed women are then interviewed for the remainder of the video, they discuss going to work in the textile mills, living in the mill village, alcohol in the mill village, education, and other topics.

Abstract Zimmerman discusses the 1934 textile workers' strike, her internment at Fort McPherson in Atlanta, Ga., strikers being evicted from mill housing, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and other topics. Thom Malcolm talks with an unidentified woman about her mother, who worked in the mill at age 14. They discuss working conditions in the mill, and child labor. Sharpe discusses being deputized at age 14 to keep the strikers out of Opelika, Ala., his career in the textile mills, and how he became...

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Barton is shown walking with a woman. Etta Mae Zimmerman and Roger Zimmerman discuss changes in the textile mills over the years, the textile workers' strike and Etta Mae's interment at Fort McPherson.

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Barton discusses the 1934 strike, the arrest and interment of the flying squadron at Fort McPherson in Atlanta, Ga., his family, and his work in the mills.

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Harry Barton discusses his family's multi generational history of working in cotton mills, living in the mill village, the General Textile Strike of 1934, the aftermath of the strike, and other topics.

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Barton discusses union organizing, the textile workers' strike of 1934, and why he went from being pro-union to anti-union.

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Barton discusses why people in Hogansville joined the union, why he became involved with the union, why he became disillusioned with the union, how the strike affected the mill village, and other topics.

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Johnson and Lindsey discuss Homer Welch a union organizer, the textile workers' strike of 1934 and newsreels of the strike.

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Johnson and Lindsey read a newspaper article in which Homer Welch mentioned, discus the article and Homer's involvement in the textile workers' strike of 1934 and union organizing.

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Irene and L.T. Medley discuss union organization, mill wages and hours, and life as a textile mill worker.