The Uprising of æ34

By pidcing together a significant number of individual recollections of the event from the perspective of survivor accounts and footage from the era, the filmmakers attempt to counterbalance the seven decades of silence surrounding the most significant organized labor movement in the U.S. South û a region whose workers were often thought to be anti-union. As Flora Maye Caldwell, a southern textile worker, says at the beginning of the documentary: ôIt was rumored that there was a union, somewhere back in the æ30s. But nobody will talk about it.ö

In the late 1920s, southern textile unions began to emerge. Because of declining real wages and increased workloads, mill workers engaged in strikes and began to seek union representation. The election of Franklin Dl. Roosevelt, the New Deal, and the establishment of the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) further encouraged southern te

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