Columbus (Ga.)
Found in 30 Collections and/or Records:
Joe Jacobs, Lucille Thornburgh, and Union Organizers Interview 8, 28 December 1991
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.
Joe Jacobs, Roy Wade, Don Rodgers, and Angie Rodgers Interview 1, 29 December 1991
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.
Joe Jacobs, Roy Wade, Don Rodgers, Angie Rodgers Interview 2, 29 December 1991
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.
Lucille Thornburgh and Cannon Mills Textile Workers Interview, 28 December 1991
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.
Lucille Thornburgh, Roy Wade, Don Rodgers, Bill Winn, and Angie Rodgers Interviews, 29 December 1991
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.
Mr. Quattlebaum and Annie Griggs Interviews, 23 July 1990
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.
Mr. Quattlebaum and Annie Griggs Interviews 2, 23 July 1993
Quattlebaum discusses his garden. Griggs discusses her childhood, going to work in the textile mills, her career, the textile workers' strike, and other topics.
Mr. Quattlebaum Interview, 23 July 1990
Mr. Quattlebaum describes the Great Depression, Georgia senatorial races, the Navy, employment in opportunities and wage discrimination in the south, and racism.
Rex Sanders and Etta Mae Zimmerman Interviews
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.
Rex Sanders and Family Interview
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.