Columbus (Ga.)
Found in 30 Collections and/or Records:
ACTWU Summer Group Interview, 14 August 1990
Rossner and other members of the Amalgamated Clothing Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) discuss the meaning that the textile workers' strike of 1934 has for them, how that strike colors perception unions in the 1990s, life in the mill village, and what can be done to change perceptions of unions in the South.
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.
Angie Rossner, Doris Shavers, and Mr. Quattlebaum Interviews, 23 July 1990
Rossner and Shavers discuss working conditions in the textile mill, sexual harrassment in the mills, working in the textile mills in World War II and other topics. Mr. Quattlebaum shows Jamie and George Stoney photos of his family.
Angie Rossner, Fred Fussel, and Doris Shavers Interviews, 24 July 1990
Rossner discusses her work as a weaver. Shavers discusses the textile workers' strike of 1934. Fussel discusses the creation of the exhibit Chattahoochee Legacy and shows the exhibit to several textile workers.
Angie Rossner, John Rossner, and Doris Shavers Interviews, 23 July 1990
Angie Rossner and John Rossner discuss various points of business for the Amalgamated Clothing Textile Workers Union (ACTWU). Shavers and Angie Rossner discuss working conditions in the mills during the 1930s and 1990s, Shavers' pro-union beliefs, childcare, brown lung and other topics.
Annie Griggs and Angie Rossner Interviews, 23 July 1990
Griggs discusses the textile workers' strike of 1934, being evicted from her home due to the strike, working in a textile mill, and life in the mill village. Rossner discusses why she likes working on the union newsletter, and the sounds of the textile mill.
Bill Winn Interview, 16 July 1990
Winn discusses the history of the textile mills in Columbus, Ga., the mill village, mill housing, the lack of preservation of that housing, union organizing, anti-union sentiment in the town and other topics.
Bill Winn Interview 2, 29 December 1991
Winn reads and discusses several documents concerning the textile workers' strike of 1934 and the life of mill workers.
Bill Winn Interview 3
Winn discusses the summer he worked in a textile mill, the history of Columbus Ga., and other topics.
Bill Winn Interview 4, 21 July 1990
Winn discusses, education for mill children in Columbus, ties between the anti-union sentiments and the Ku Klux Klan, ties between the Ku Klux Klan and police department, the ties between mill owners and the local newspaper and other topics.
Bill Winn Interview 5
Bill Winn plays the guitar and discusses his family, how he formed his worldview, and his musical influences. There is a brief break in the interview where Judith Helfand sets up microphones for another interview and then it returns to the interview with Bill Winn.
Clara Williams, Rex Sanders, Max Sanders Interview
Rex Sanders, Max Sanders, and Williams discuss the textile workers' strike, the death of Reuben Sanders, issues unions face in the South, their opinions on the union and other topics.
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.
Fred Fussel, Doris Shavers, and Clara Haywood Interview, 24 July 1990
Shavers and Haywood discuss what life was like in a cotton mill village, working in a textile mill, and other topics.
Harry Haywood Interview
Haywood discusses going to work in the textile mill as a child, the textile workers' strike of 1934, union organizing and other topics.
Interview with Harry Harden and Elvis H. Pippin, 31 July 1990
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, Lucille Thornburgh, and Union Organizers Interview 6, 28 December 1991
Jacobs, Thornburgh and the union organizers discuss the how unions are portrayed in the media, why they work as organizers, why mill ownership works against unions, blacklisting and other topics.