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Myrtle Jones, Larry Blatney and Dee Neely Interviews

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Jones, Myrtle

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Jones and Blatney discuss the strike, and the letter Jones's father wrote to Franklin Roosevelt.Neely discusses a letter written to Washington, D.C. in which the African American workers at Irving Mill in Cooleemee, N.C.Myrtle Jones was a textile worker at Cannon Mills in Concord, N.C.Larry Blatney was a textile worker at Cannon Mills in Concord, N.C.Dee Neely grew up in Cooleemee, N.C.
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Blatney, LarryNeely, DeeHelfand, Judith, 1964
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Georgia State University

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Digital Library of Georgia

Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Cannon Mills Company (Concord, N.C.)
  3. Civil Rights
  4. Cotton Textile Industry
  5. Irving Mills (Cooleemee, N.C.)
  6. Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)
  7. United States
  8. United States. National Recovery Administration

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