- Collection:
- Uprising of '34 Collection
- Title:
- Nanny Leah Washburn Interview 4
- Creator:
- Washburn, Nanny Leah
Romaine, Anne - Contributor to Resource:
- Stoney, George C.
Smith, Clara - Date of Original:
- 1990-07-17
- Subject:
- Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)
Textile workers--Labor unions
Labor unions and communism
Working class women
Working class women--Family relationships
Working class--Education
Working class--Songs and music - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, 33.79025, -84.46702
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798 - Medium:
- oral histories (document genres)
videotapes - Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Nanny Leah Washburn was a mill worker and a communist union organizer in Atlanta, Ga. Anne Romaine was a folksinger, songwriter, activist, and history professor. She grew up in rural North Carolina. Her grandparents worked in the Gastonia Cotton Mills, and Anne developed a lifelong interest in the lives of cotton mill workers.
Washburn discussses her childhood, going to work in the textile mills, the textile workers' strike of 1934, her interest in the Communist party and other topics. - Local Identifier:
- L1995-13_AV0729
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/uprising/id/343
- 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):
- Nanny Leah Washburn, interviewed by George Stoney and Clara Smith, 17 July 1990. L1995-13_AV0729, 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:
- 00:24:55
- 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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