cotton mills Archives - Appalachian History

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For the last three or four years, or until the middle of 1920, the cotton mills passed through a very prosperous period.

In 1934 Cherokee workers joined textile workers across the South in a strike known as Uprising of 1934. Knoxville workers stayed out 8 weeks.

Joe Sharp played mandolin for the Skyline Farms square dancers when they performed for Eleanor Roosevelt at the White House.

At the Depression’s height, 4,000+ textile mill workers in Huntsville walked off the job, beginning a strike that eventually spread to Maine.

Sept. 6, 1934: 7 workers shot & killed, 30 others wounded, at Chiquola Mill in Honea Path, SC. The incident shaped the town’s history.