- Collection:
- Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills Digital Collection
- Title:
- Statement of Lonnie Middlebrooks
- Creator:
- Middlebrooks, Lonnie
- Date of Original:
- 1914-05-22
- Subject:
- Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills
Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills--Employees--History--20th century
Strikes and lockouts--Textile industry--Georgia--Atlanta
Labor unions--Georgia--Atlanta
Textile workers--Georgia--Atlanta--History--20th century
Textile industry--Georgia--Atlanta--History--20th century
Governmental investigations
Cotton textile industry--Georgia--Atlanta
Cotton textile industry--Employees
United Textile Workers of America
United States. Commission on Industrial Relations
Industrial relations--Georgia--Atlanta
Employees--Georgia--Atlanta
Textile workers--Labor unions--Georgia--Atlanta
Labor union members--Georgia--Atlanta
Atlanta (Ga.). Police Department
Police--Georgia--Atlanta
Threats of violence--Georgia--Atlanta
Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills Strike, Atlanta, Ga., 1914-1915 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, Cabbagetown, 33.748162, -84.3665927 - Medium:
- testimonies
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Lonnie Middlebrooks' official statement reads as follows: "I was sitting on the steps of the home of Mr. St. John between 9 and 8 o'clock of the morning of May 21st 1914 when officer [illegible] of the city police came along and entered into conversation with me. I asked him what he was doing here and he replied that he was down here 'to keep these damned Jews from getting killed.'"
The Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills Exhibit is a joint project between the Georgia Tech Library and Information Center's Archives and Records Management, Digital Initiatives, and Systems departments. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://exhibit-archive.library.gatech.edu/fulton_bag/iteme255.html?collection=ms004&filename=ms004-032.xml
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Please cite [Folder Title, Series and Subseries Title,] Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills records, Archives, Library and Information Center, Georgia Institute of Technology.
- Extent:
- 1 p. ; 8.5"x11"
- Original Collection:
- Box 5, Folder 4 Sworn statements (folder 1 of 2) 1914, Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills records, Archives, Library and Information Center, Georgia Institute of Technology.
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia Institute of Technology. Library. Archives, Records Management and Digital Curation Department
- Rights:
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