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Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: So in 1934, sixity years ago, lets see, you were 26 years old, and you were, you were gonna get married, you had a date to get married?
Segment Synopsis: Mildred Pennington discusses the textile workers' strike of 1934 and her experiences during it.
Keywords: eight hour workday; picket lines
Subjects: Labor union locals; Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934); Wages; Women textile workers
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Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: Did someone ask you to join? How did you even find out about it? Do you remember that?
Segment Synopsis: Mildred Pennington discusses how people in the town percived cotton mill workers.
Keywords: lintheads; union organizing
Subjects: Elementary school teachers; Women textile workers
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Partial Transcript: MILDRED PENNINGTON: When I applied for a job, I taught in Albertville first two year I taught, and the only reason there wasn't an opening in the school down here, and I applied for a job in Albertville.
Segment Synopsis: Mildred Pennington discusses how she became an elementary school teacher.
Subjects: Elementary school teachers; Working class women; Working class--Education
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Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: These meetings that you had in the church, could you desricbe them for me?
Segment Synopsis: Mildred Pennington discusses being the treasurer of her local labor union, the fact that the union was integrated, the blacklisting after the strike.
Keywords: African-American mill workers; aftermath of the strike
Subjects: Blacklisting, Labor; Labor union locals; Labor union meetings; Labor unions--Officials and employees; Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934); Women in the labor movement
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Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: How was that you, that you were so involved and then during the big strike you just kind of left?
Segment Synopsis: Mildred Pennington discusses why she was not very involved with the union during the strike>
Keywords: women mill workers
Subjects: Teachers; Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)
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Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND:Were there people in the community-- were there other, was there anyone in the community that gave support to you having a union?
Segment Synopsis: Mildred Pennington discusses the lack of support for the strikers from the townspeople and reads a list of union members noting whether or not she knew them.
Subjects: Labor union locals; Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)
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Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: He wrote this letter to Washington DC --
MILDRED PENNINGTON: Yeah
HELFAND: -- to complain.
Segment Synopsis: Mildred Pennington discusses a letter written in compliant, the prejudiced in the police force, spies in the mills, and the labor union local
Keywords: African-American mill workers; union organizing
Subjects: Labor union locals; Letter writing; Textile workers
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Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: But you would say that there were only two black employees or just a handful, and they were in your union?
Segment Synopsis: Mildred Pennington discusses Claude Hundley an African American union member, and why she does not remember seeing the machine guns at the textile mill.
Keywords: African-American mill workers
Subjects: Textile workers--Labor unions
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Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: Now did you even bother going back for your job or just didn't go back?
Segment Synopsis: Mildred Pennington discusses blacklisting, why she didn't go out on the picket line, and the union that organized in Gunthersville after the textile workers' strike of 1934.
Keywords: aftermath of the strike; picket lines
Subjects: Blacklisting, Labor; Labor union locals; Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934); Textile workers--Labor unions