Leona Parham and Etta Mae Zimmerman Interview 4

• Main Author: Parham, Leona;Zimmerman, Etta Mae
• Other Authors: Stoney, George C.
• Format: Moving Image (Video)
• Language: English
• Published: 1990
• Subjects: Child labor;Wagons;Newspapers;Picketing;Prisoners;Prisons;Prisoners' families;Imprisonment;Violence;Strikes and lockouts;Strikes and lockouts > Textile industry;Textile workers > Labor unions;Textile workers > Labor unions > Organizing; United States. Army;Georgia. Governor (1948-1955 : Talmadge);Roosevelt; Franklin D. (Franklin Delano); 1882-1945;Coca-Cola Company;National Guard Association of the United States; Fort McPherson; Talmadge; Zimmerman
• Online Access: http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/uprising/id/453

Etta Mae Zimmerman was a textile worker and union member from Hogansville, Ga. Leona Parham is Etta Mae Zimmerman's sister. Etta Mae Zimmerman was arrested for picketing during the 1934 strike and held at Fort McPherson for a week with her father. The sisters discuss what led up to the strike,...