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Partial Transcript: M1: You ever try to go fishing with--
GEORGE STONEY: Ok.
M1: -- a cast iron pole?
MR. QUATTLEBAUM: (laughter) No.
Segment Synopsis: Mr. Quattlebaum discusses growing up during the Great Depression and his memories of the textile workers' strike of 1934.
Keywords: education
Subjects: Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)
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Partial Transcript: GEORGE STONEY: What do you think of -- have you ever been a member of a union?
MR. QUATTLEBAUM: No.
STONEY: What do you think of -- I want you to talk about what you think about Angie's doing all this?
Segment Synopsis: Mr. Quattlebaum discusses living in Columbus, Ga.
Keywords: union organizing
Subjects: Columbus (Ga.); Textile workers--Labor unions
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Partial Transcript: GEORGE STONEY: I want you to-- could you think about that story that you told about your brothers and the bakery? It just illustrates the depression so well. I want you to think about--
MR. QUATTLEBAUM: They went in there and stole some--
Keywords: African-American mill workers; prejudice; racism
Subjects: Great Depression; Ku Klux Klan (1915- ); Segregation; Working class African Americans
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Partial Transcript: GEORGE STONEY: Ok, could you tell us how and when you got into the mills and what you did.
ANNIE GRIGGS: Well when I got into the mill I learned how to spin.
Segment Synopsis: Annie Griggs discusses her childhood and going to work in a cotton mill.
Keywords: spinners; women mill workers
Subjects: Child labor; Wages--Women; Women textile workers
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Partial Transcript: GEORGE STONEY: Do you remember any strikes?
ANNIE GRIGGS: Oh yeah they had one at the Eagle and Phenix.
Segment Synopsis: Annie Griggs discusses the textile workers' strike of 1934, the union, the national guard at the mill,
Keywords: aftermath of the strike; picket lines
Subjects: Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934); Textile workers--Labor unions; Women textile workers
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Partial Transcript: GEORGE STONEY: Do you remember the Labor Day Parades?
ANNIE GRIGGS: Oh yeah.
GEORGE STONEY: Tell us about them.
Segment Synopsis: Annie Griggs discusses labor day parades, living in the mill village, taking care of her family, and working in a textile mill.
Keywords: Labor Day; Labor Day parade; mill managers; mill villages; women mill workers
Subjects: New Deal (1933-1939); Parades; Working class women; Working class women--Family relationships; Working class--Dwellings
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Partial Transcript: GEORGE STONEY: Talk about the diet, what, what did you eat?
ANNIE GRIGGS: We ate dried peas and butterbeans, such as that.
Segment Synopsis: Annie Griggs discusses the food she grew up with and her perspective of working in a cotton mill.
Keywords: lintheads; mill buildings; women mill workers
Subjects: Agriculture; Rural-urban migration; Textile factories; Women textile workers
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Partial Transcript: GEORGE STONEY: So explain why you miss the mill.
ANNIE GRIGGS: Well I miss going to work cause after you work so long you're not satisfied, not happy at all.
Segment Synopsis: Annie Griggs discusses how she has kept active during her retirement and what she missed about working in the mill.
Keywords: mill buildings; spinners; stretch-out; women mill workers
Subjects: Retirement; Textile factories; Women textile workers