- Collection:
- Uprising of '34 Collection
- Title:
- Old Acquaintance Reunion
- Creator:
- Zimmerman, Leander
Denton, Ollie - Contributor to Resource:
- Stoney, George C.
Helfand, Judith, 1964- - Date of Original:
- 1991-06-09
- Subject:
- Textile workers
Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)
Strikes and lockouts--Textile industry
Documentary films - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
United States, Georgia, Coweta County, 33.35346, -84.76337
United States, Georgia, Coweta County, Newnan, 33.38067, -84.79966
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Fort McPherson, 33.70733, -84.43354
United States, Georgia, Troup County, 33.03351, -85.02834
United States, Georgia, Troup County, Hogansville, 33.17318, -84.91494 - Medium:
- oral histories (document genres)
videotapes - Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Ollie Denton was a cotton mill worker in East Newnan, Ga. Leander Zimmerman worked in various textile mills as doffer and in the card room. Zimmerman left the mills and became a barber. He is also related to Etta Mae Zimmerman. Etta Mae Zimmerman was a textile worker and union member from Hogansville, Ga.
The first 15 minutes of the video is a recording of various attendants at a cotton mill reunion. Denton discusses working in the textile mills and the textile workers' strike of 1934. Leander Zimmerman discusses the textile workers' strike of 1934 and working as a barber. - Local Identifier:
- L1995-13_AV0500
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/uprising/id/193
- 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):
- Leander Zimmerman and Ollie Denton, interviewed by George Stoney and Judith Helfand, 9 June 1991. L1995-13_AV0500, 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:
- 00:27:59
- 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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