- Collection:
- Kenneth Rogers Photograph Collection
- Title:
- General Textile Strike of 1934
- Creator:
- Rogers, Kenneth, 1907-1989
- Date of Original:
- 1934-09-17
- Subject:
- Strikes--United States
Strikes--Georgia--Newnan
Textile industry strikes--Georgia--Newnan
Textile industry unions--Georgia--Newnan
Textile industry unions--United States
Labor unions--Georgia--Newnan
Labor unions--United States
Organizations--Georgia--Newnan
Organizations--United States
Employee rights--Georgia--Newnan
Employee rights--United States
Employees--Georgia--Newnan
Industry--Georgia--Newnan
Commercial organizations--Georgia--Newnan
Textile industry--Georgia--Newnan
Textile industry--United States
Textile mill workers--Georgia--Newnan
Military officers--United States
Military personnel--United States
Military uniforms--1930-1940--United States
Clothing and dress--1930-1940
Hats--1930-1940
National Guard Association of Georgia
Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)
New Deal, 1933-1939--Georgia
Camp, Lindley
Lefevre, Rex W.
Newnan Cotton Mills (Newnan, Ga.) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Coweta County, Newnan, 33.38067, -84.79966
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- View (from left to right) of Captain Lefevre, H. E. Sheats, Homer Welch, and General Lindley Camp, outside the Newnan Cotton Mills in Newnan, Georgia. Sheats and Welch were strikers in the General Textile Strike of 1934, who had just been captured and stripped of their guns when this photograph was taken.
On Labor Day in 1934, textile workers in the northeast and southeast began a strike against their treatment by employers at the mills. In response to the strike 72,000 southern textile workers were blacklisted from the mills. The strike led to the formation of the Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA) in 1939. - Local Identifier:
- VIS 82.148.13
ahc082148013a.jpg - Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/Rogers/id/1115
- Extent:
- 4 x 5 in. black and white negative
- Original Collection:
- Kenneth Rogers Photographs, Atlanta History Center
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
-
