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Birmingham (Ala.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 28 Collections and/or Records:

American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), Local 3 (Atlanta, Ga.) records

 Collection
Identifier: L1974-43
Abstract: American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO, Local 3 (Atlanta, Ga.) records, 1951-1974, consist of correspondence, minutes, financial documents, legal files and printed material. Included are minutes of Greater Atlanta Public Employees District Council 14, 1966-1967, 1972. The records illuminate the local's daily concern with group insurance policies, membership maintenance, pensions, organizing in greater Atlanta area (particularly DeKalb County), legislative...
Dates: 1951-1974

Birmingham Labor Council records

 Collection
Identifier: L1973-14
Abstract:

In 1958, the Birmingham Federation of Labor and the Birmingham Industrial Union Council merged to form the AFL-CIO, Birmingham (Alabama) Labor Council. Records, 1954-1965, include minutes of the Birmingham Federation of Labor and the Birmingham Industrial Union Council, 1955-1958, and of the Birmingham Labor Council, AFL-CIO, 1964-1965, and correspondence, financial documents, printed material, and photographs.

Dates: 1954-1965

Burns Cox, Grady Kilgro, Eula McGill, and James Interviews, 7 August 1991

 Item
Identifier: L1995-13_AV0490
Abstract

Cox discusses his house and the improvements he made to it, and he gives an audio tour of the exterior of the mill. Kilgo discusses his former house, which was located right next to Cox's. McGill discusses working at Dwight Manufacturing. James discusses working at Dwight Manufacturing. James discusses working at Dwight Manufacturing.

Dates: 7 August 1991

Eula McGill Interview, 5 August 1991

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0421
Abstract

McGill discusses Eleanor Roosevelt, union organizing, Homer Welch, the textile workers' strike of 1934, the National Recovery Administration, and other topics.

Dates: 5 August 1991

Eula McGill Interview 1, 5 August 1991

 Item
Identifier: L1995-13_AV0565
Abstract

She discusses her union organizing efforts with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, wages, government support, and union efforts to obtain better working conditions.

Dates: 5 August 1991

Eula McGill Interview 2, 15 August 1991

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0566
Abstract

McGill discusses growing up with a union-supportive father, working at a mill, and her beginnings as an union member and organizer.

Dates: 15 August 1991

Eula McGill Interview 2A, 5 August 1991

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0578
Abstract

McGill discusses union organizing, the textile workers's strike of 1934, the way in which union organizers were harassed by mill owners, her trip to Washington D.C. with the Women's Trade Union League and meeting Franklin Delano Roosevelt at the White House.

Dates: 5 August 1991

Eula McGill Interview 3, 5 August 1991

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0579
Abstract

McGill discusses going to the White House, meeting Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt, the textile workers's strike of 1934, working in the textile mills, life in the cotton mill village and working as union organizer.

Dates: 5 August 1991

Eula McGill Interview 3A, 5 August 1991

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0567
Abstract

McGill discusses the kidnapping of John Dean, union organizing, bribery, and racism in textile mills and unions.

Dates: 5 August 1991

Eula McGill Interview 4, 5 August 1991

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0568
Abstract

McGill discusses living conditions during lockouts, anti-union violence, union meetings and organizing, and working conditions for women in mills.

Dates: 5 August 1991

Eula McGill Interview 6, 2 May 1994

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0763
Abstract

McGill discusses her childhood, working in a textile mill, union organizing, life in the mill village, sexual harassment, and the textile workers' strike of 1934.

Dates: 2 May 1994

Eula McGill Interview 7, 2 May 1994

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0765
Abstract

McGill discusses union organzing, the textile workers' strike of 1934, sexual harrassment, working in the textile mills, the NRA, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and other topics.

Dates: 2 May 1994

Eula McGill Interview 8, 2 May 1994

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0766
Abstract

McGill discusses union organizing, the textile workers' strike of 1934, the industrial labor union movement, and other topics.

Dates: 2 May 1994

Eula McGill Interview 9, 2 May 1994

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0769
Abstract

McGill discusses the textile workers' strike of 1934, songs sung on the picket line, being blacklisted, the aftermath of the strike and her later work with labor unions.

Dates: 2 May 1994

Eula McGill Interview 10, 2 May 1994

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0771
Abstract

McGill discuses working in a textile mill, her involvement with the labor movement, the textile workers' strike of 1934, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, and other topics.

Dates: 2 May 1994

Eula McGill Interview 11

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0024
Abstract

McGill discusses her work as a union organizer, the textile workers' strike of 1934, and other topics.

Dates: 1987-1995

Eula McGill Interview 13

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0049
Abstract

McGill discusses her work as an organizer in the post-war period, several organizing campaigns in Tennesee, the impact of right to work laws on the labor union movement, and other topics.

Dates: 1987-1995

Eula McGill Interview 15

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0051
Abstract

McGill describes her entry into union life, working conditions in the mills, public reception to union efforts, and the effects of the early union years on the strikes of the 1930s.

Dates: 1987-1995

Eula McGill Interview 16

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0054
Abstract

McGill discusses going to the White House, her work as a union organizer, some of the issues she dealt with, and other topics.

Dates: 1987-1995

Eula McGill Interview 17

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0049b
Abstract

McGill discusses her work as a union organizer, her work as a business agent, the issue she faced, anti-union sentiment throughout the South and other topics.

Dates: 1987-1995