R.J. Terrell Interview 2

Partial Transcript: GEORGE STONEY: -- to you about what you did in the mill.

R.J. TERRELL: Oh at the mill?

Segment Synopsis: R.J. Terrell discusses working at the textile mills and why he decided to retire.

Keywords: African-American mill workers

Subjects: Asbestos; Textile workers; Textile workers--Health and hygiene

Partial Transcript: GEORGE STONEY: So you retired at 65?

HELFAND: 62?

Segment Synopsis: R.J. Terrell discusses what it was like being an African American worker in the textile mill.

Keywords: African-American mill workers

Subjects: Race discrimination--Economic aspects; Textile workers; Wages; Working class African Americans

Partial Transcript: GEORGE STONEY: Well we're making , Mr. Parham's helping up and other people in Newnan and Hogansville, we're making a movie, public television, about life in the textile mills.

Segment Synopsis: R.J. Terrell discusses other African American textile workers that worked with him and if George Stoney and Judith Helfand can contact them.

Keywords: African-American mill workers

Subjects: Textile workers; Working class African Americans

Partial Transcript: GEORGE STONEY: Uh, where did you live during all of that time?

Segment Synopsis: R.J. Terrell discusses where he lived and how he was employed by the textile mill to move workers in and out of mill houses.

Keywords: African-American mill workers; mill villages

Subjects: Textile workers; Working class--Dwellings

Partial Transcript: GEORGE STONEY: Well this is going way back now--

R.J. TERRELL: Yeah.

STONEY:-- but in 19, 1934, there was a big strike all over the South in cotton mill. Do you remember what happened here?

Segment Synopsis: R.J. Terrell discusses the textile workers' strike of 1934.

Keywords: African-American mill workers; eviction from mill village houses

Subjects: Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934); Textile workers--Labor unions

Partial Transcript: GEORGE STONEY: Now did you -- could you tell us what it was like working in the picker room?

Segment Synopsis: R.J. Terrell discusses his work in the picker room and his family.

Keywords: African-American mill workers

Subjects: Textile workers; Working class African Americans

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: R.J. were you consider lucky by other people to have a mill job?

Segment Synopsis: R.J. Terrell discusses his work at the mill and his home

Keywords: African-American mill workers

Subjects: Textile workers; Working class African Americans