- Collection:
- Uprising of '34 Collection
- Title:
- Maddie Rainwater, Maurine Rainwater, Mildred Rainwater, and Etta Mae Zimmerman Interviews
- Creator:
- Rainwater, Maddie
Rainwater, Maurine
Rainwater, Mildred
Zimmerman, Etta Mae - Contributor to Resource:
- Helfand, Judith, 1964-
Stoney, George C. - Date of Original:
- 1990/1999
- Subject:
- Working class women--Family relationships
Women textile workers
Documentary films
Wages
Working class--Education
Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)
Photographs
Textile workers--Health and hygiene
Rural-urban migration
Textile workers--Labor unions
Retirement
Social security beneficiaries
Education, Elementary
Education, Secondary
Methodist Church - People:
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
United States, Georgia, Bibb County, Macon, Pepperell Manufacturing Company
United States, Georgia, Coweta County, 33.35346, -84.76337
United States, Georgia, Coweta County, Newnan, 33.38067, -84.79966
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, 33.79025, -84.46702
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)
audio cassettes - Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- Maddie Rainwater was a textile worker in East Newnan, Ga. Mildred Rainwater was a textile worker in East Newnan, Ga. Maurine Rainwater was a textile worker in East Newnan, Ga. Etta Mae Zimmerman was a textile worker and union member from Hogansville, Ga.
Maddie Rainwater, Maurine Rainwater, and Mildred Rainwater discuss working in the cotton mill, the impact of the eight-hour day, the textile workers' strike of 1934 and other topics. An unidentified man and an unidentified woman discuss the textile workers' strike of 1934, while watching a newsreel. Etta Mae Zimmerman discusses working in the cotton mill, her family, the textile workers' strike of 1934, being imprisoned in Fort McPherson and other topics. - Local Identifier:
- L1995-13_AV0780
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/uprising/id/490
- 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):
- Maddie Rainwater, Maurine Rainwater, Mildred Rainwater, and Etta Mae Zimmerman, interviewed by Judith Helfand and George Stoney, no date. L1995-13_AV0780, The Uprising of '34 Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
- Extent:
- 01:31:02
- 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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