Columbus (Ga.)

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 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.

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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.

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Jacobs, Thornburgh, and union organizers discuss the shame associated with the strike, feelings of shame associated with being a textile worker, racism and segregation, and other topics.

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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.

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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.

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The textile workers in this video were working to unionize Cannon Mills in 1991. The workers read letters written by various participants of the 1934 strike and react to their contents. Thornburgh discusses her involvement with the textile workers' strike of 1934, the letters she wrote to Washington, D.C., and how the strike has impacted her life.

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Thornburgh, Wade, Don Rodgers and an unidentified woman watch a newsreel of the funeral of strikers at Honea Path, S.C. and discuss these deaths and the textile workers' strike of 1934. Winn, Don Rodgers and Angie Rodgers discuss letters to Franklin Delano Roosevelt from cotton mill workers.

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Mr. Quattlebaum discusses his family, living in Columbus, working the textile mills, and other topics. Annie Griggs discusses her childhood, education, going to work in the textile mills, the textile workers' strike of 1934 and other topics.

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Quattlebaum discusses his garden. Griggs discusses her childhood, going to work in the textile mills, her career, the textile workers' strike, and other topics.

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Mr. Quattlebaum describes the Great Depression, Georgia senatorial races, the Navy, employment in opportunities and wage discrimination in the south, and racism.

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Sanders discusses maintaining his father's grave as a child and the issues with its current upkeep. Zimmerman discusses a family photo album she has put together.

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Sanders, his unidentified mother, brother, and sister discuss the impact that the death of their father/husband had on the family, the textile workers' strike of 1934, unions in Columbus, Ga., and other topics.