Friday, E.O
Description
E.O. Friday talks about discrimination against African American workers in the mills, their exclusion from joining the union, and working conditions in the mills. He also discusses Ku Klux Klan activities during this time, his service with the United States Navy, and starting his own business.E.O. Friday was an African American textile worker at the Modena Cotton Mill.
Video
Stoney, George CHelfand, Judith, 1964Stoney, James B
Record Contributed By
Georgia State UniversityRecord Harvested From
Digital Library of GeorgiaKeywords
- African Americans
- Cotton Textile Industry
- Discrimination
- Discrimination In Employment
- Employees
- Employment
- Factories
- Housing
- Industrial Management
- Labor Unions
- Modena Cotton Mills (Gastonia, N.C.)
- Religion
- Segregation
- Strikes And Lockouts
- Textile Factories
- Textile Industry
- Textile Manufacturers
- Textile Workers
- United States
- United States. National Recovery Administration
- Wages
- Working Class African Americans