- Collection:
- Uprising of '34 Collection
- Title:
- Grady Kilgro, Eula McGill and Burns Cox Interview
- Creator:
- Kilgro, Grady
McGill, Eula, 1911-2003
Cox, Burns - Contributor to Resource:
- Stoney, George C.
Helfand, Judith, 1964-
Stoney, James B.
Irons, Janet Christine - Date of Original:
- 1991-08-07
- Subject:
- Textile workers
Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)
Labor unions
Strikes and lockouts--Textile industry
Textile workers--Labor unions
Textile workers--Labor unions--Organizing
Working class--Dwellings
Working class women - Location:
- United States, Alabama, 32.75041, -86.75026
United States, Alabama, Etowah County, Gadsden, 34.01434, -86.00639
United States, Alabama, Etowah County, Gadsden, Dwight Manufacturing Company
United States, Alabama, Jefferson County, Birmingham, 33.52066, -86.80249 - Medium:
- oral histories (document genres)
videotapes - Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Grady Kilgro was a spinner at the Dwight Manufacturing Company in Gasden, Ala. Eula McGill was a labor organizer in Birmingham, Ala. Burns Cox was a textile worker at Dwight Manufacturing Company in Gasden, Ala.
Kilgro, McGill, and Cox discuss living in the mill village, company control of mill villages, Labor Day parades, the textile workers' strike of 1934, labor organizing, and the closing of the Dwight Manufacturing Company. - Local Identifier:
- L1995-13_AV0476
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/uprising/id/169
- Language:
- eng
- Rights Holder:
- Copyright to this item is owned by Georgia State University Library. Georgia State University Library has made this item available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. For more information see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/40/
- Additional Rights Information:
- Copyright to this item is owned by Georgia State University Library. Georgia State University Library has made this item available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. For more information see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Grady Kilgro, Eula McGill and Burns Cox, interviewed by George Stoney, Judith Helfand, Jamie Stoney, and Janet Irons, 7 August 1991. L1995-13_AV0476, The Uprising of '34 Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
Click the blue timestamps in the transcript above to navigate to any point in the video and transcript. - Extent:
- 00:30:50
- Original Collection:
- Southern Labor Archives
The Uprising of '34 Collection
https://archivesspace.library.gsu.edu/repositories/2/resources/472 - Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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