- Collection:
- Uprising of '34 Collection
- Title:
- Almeda Erickson, Opal McMichael, Frank Gosset, and Zelda Gosset Interviews
- Creator:
- Erickson, Almeda
McMichael, Opal
Gosset, Frank
Gosset, Zelda - Contributor to Resource:
- Stoney, George C.
Stoney, James B. - Date of Original:
- 1990/1999
- Subject:
- Radio programs
Cotton
Cotton picking
Flowers
Company stores
Debt
Wages
Labor laws and legislation
Children
Children of working parents
Labor movement
Labor unions
Strikes and lockouts
Women - 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, Franklin County, 34.37544, -83.22918
United States, Georgia, Franklin County, Lavonia, 34.43594, -83.10682
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:
- Almeda Erickson and Opal McMichael were textile mill workers in Lavonia, Georgia at the East Newnan Cotton Mill. Frank and Zelda Gosset were textile mill workers in Lavonia, Georgia.
Almeda Erickson and Opal McMichael discuss life in as female mill workers, courting, radio, living in mill villages, and strikes. They discuss village life with company homes and stores, wages, debt to the company, and children in the mills. - Local Identifier:
- L1995-13_AV0754
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/uprising/id/409
- Language:
- eng
- 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):
- Almeda Erickson, Opal McMichael, Frank Gosset, and Zelda Gosset, interviewed by George Stoney and Jamie Stoney, no date. L1995-13_AV0754, 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:
- 00:29:02
- 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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