Marion "Peanut" Brown Interview 2

Partial Transcript: GEORGE STONEY: Uh, where were you in 1933?

Segment Synopsis: Marion "Peanut" Brown discusses working at the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill, the nature of the mill village in Cabbagetown, and the textile workers' strike of 1934.

Keywords: mill villages

Subjects: Atlanta (Ga.); Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills; Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934); Textile workers

Partial Transcript: GEORGE STONEY: Now we've been talking with some people in Cabbagetown, all of whom who are very into praising the Elsases.

Segment Synopsis: Marion "Peanut" Brown discusses his opinions of the mill owners of the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill, his work as textile worker, the women in his family who were textile workers, and the mill village.

Keywords: mill owners; mill villages; spinning; women mill workers

Subjects: Baseball; Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills; Textile workers; Wages; Women textile workers

Partial Transcript: GEORGE STONEY: Did they take any interest in the people's behavior?

Segment Synopsis: Marion "Peanut" Brown discusses how the mill company controlled its employees' behavior.

Keywords: mill villages; paternalism

Subjects: Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills; Textile workers

Partial Transcript: GEORGE STONEY: When you sang for the strikers, uh, did they pay you?

Segment Synopsis: Marion "Peanut' Brown discusses the music he played during the textile workers' strike of 1934.

Keywords: mill villages

Subjects: Blues (Music); Working class--Songs and music

Partial Transcript: GEORGE STONEY: Do you remember any of the people who were important in the strike?

Segment Synopsis: Marion "Peanut" Brown and George Stoney discuss various union organizers.

Keywords: Frank Gosset; union organizing

Subjects: Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills; Jacobs, Joseph, 1908-; Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934); Textile workers--Labor unions

Partial Transcript: GEORGE STONEY: We've talked with some people about the attitudes of other people towards textile workers.

Segment Synopsis: Marion "Peanut" Brown discusses perceptions of textile workers, growing up in the mill village, and why the mill preferred to hire people from the mountains..

Keywords: lintheads; mill villages

Subjects: Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills; Rural-urban migration; Textile workers; Working class

Partial Transcript: GEORGE STONEY: Now what, what about, uh, colored people?

Segment Synopsis: Marion "Peanut" Brown discusses the tensions between white and African American communities in Atlanta and the role of the Ku Klux Klan in Atlanta.

Keywords: African-American mill workers; domestic workers

Subjects: African American women; Ku Klux Klan (1915- ); Segregation; Working class; Working class African Americans

Partial Transcript: GEORGE STONEY: When did you first go on the radio?

Segment Synopsis: Marion "Peanut" Brown discusses performing his music on the radio in Atlanta, playing music around Atlanta, and recording music in New York City.

Subjects: Country music; Fiddlers; Radio music; Sound recording industry; Working class--Songs and music

Partial Transcript: GEORGE STONEY: Well do you think that-- well since you had family in the mill as well, do you think it would have helped if you had a union?

Segment Synopsis: Marion "Peanut" Brown discusses his music.

Subjects: Country music; Sound recordings; Working class--Songs and music

Partial Transcript: GEORGE STONEY: We'd like to come and do some actual video recording, is that a good day?

Segment Synopsis: George Stoeny discusses when he will come back to video tape Marion "Peanut" Brown.

Subjects: Documentary films

Partial Transcript: GEORGE STONEY:-- remember the National Guard?

Segment Synopsis: Marion "Peanut" Brown discusses why he was in the National Guard, World War II, and the textile workers' strike of 1934.

Keywords: imprisonment of strikers; newsreels

Subjects: Armed Forces; Fort McPherson (Ga.); Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934); World War (1939-1945)