Oral history interview with Dora L. Watson, 1988 Feb. 4 / conducted by Linda C. Bohannon.

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Oral history interview with Dora L. Watson, 1988 Feb. 4 / conducted by Linda C. Bohannon.

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Dora Watson talks about working conditions, job tasks, race relations, wages, labor-management relations, the 1930s strike, mill housing, and life in the mill village, including churches and recreation.

Typescript: 34 leaves, bound ; 29 cm.Sound recording: 1 sound cassette : analog.

Columbus State University, Simon Schwob Memorial Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7903668

Columbus State University, Simon Schwob Memorial Library

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Bibb Manufacturing Company

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Watson, Dora L.,

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Dora L. Watson began working in the Anderson Mill (later Meritas Mills) in the early 1930s at age 15 as a battery filler. She later worked at the Bibb Mill first as a battery fille and then as a weaver for over 40 years. From the description of Oral history interview with Dora L. Watson, 1988 Feb. 4 / conducted by Linda C. Bohannon. (Columbus State University). WorldCat record id: 63787283 ...

Mill Worker Oral History Project.

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Meritas Mills (Columbus, Ga.)

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Bohannon, Linda C.,

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