Columbus (Ga.)

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Ernest Hannah and Bessie Hannah discuss working in the textile mill, the textile workers' strike of 1934, the music they performed, and other topics.

Scope and Contents of the Collection From the Collection: The Uprising of '34 Collection demonstrates how communities can be impacted in contemporary ways by history and memory, decades after a series of events occur. Veterans of the events of 1934 and their descendants-black, white, mill worker, manager, union, and non-union- were interviewed about mill village life, work conditions, southern contemporaneous culture as well as the strike itself. This finding aid describes the digitized oral history-style interviews...

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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.