Friday, Alma
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. Alma Friday talks about her education and her early life on a farm.E.O. Friday was an African American textile worker at the Modena Cotton Mill.
Video
Friday, E.OStoney, George CHelfand, Judith, 1964Stoney, James B
Record Contributed By
Georgia State UniversityRecord Harvested From
Digital Library of GeorgiaKeywords
- African Americans
- Civil Rights
- Civil Rights Movements
- Cotton Textile Industry
- Discrimination
- Discrimination In Employment
- Education
- Employees
- Employment
- Factories
- Great Depression
- Industrial Management
- Labor Unions
- Modena Cotton Mills (Gastonia, N.C.)
- New Deal (1933 1939)
- Segregation
- Strikes And Lockouts
- Textile Factories
- Textile Industry
- Textile Manufacturers
- Textile Workers
- Unfair Labor Practices
- Wages
- Working Class African Americans
