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Gastonia 1929
Language: en
Pages: 243
Authors: John A. Salmond
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-10-27 - Publisher: UNC Press Books

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Of the wave of labor strikes that swept through the South in 1929, the one at the Loray Mill in Gastonia, North Carolina, is perhaps the best remembered. In Gas
Martyr of Loray Mill
Language: en
Pages: 231
Authors: Kristina Horton
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-07-15 - Publisher: McFarland

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Union organizer and balladeer Ella May became a martyr for workers nationwide when she was murdered on her way to a union meeting in Gastonia, North Carolina, a
The Last Ballad
Language: en
Pages: 446
Authors: Wiley Cash
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-10-03 - Publisher: HarperCollins

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Winner of the Southern Book Prize for Literary Fiction Named a Best Book of 2017 by the Chicago Public Library and the American Library Association “Wiley Cas
Strike Songs of the Depression
Language: en
Pages: 185
Authors: Timothy P. Lynch
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-11-12 - Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

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The Depression brought unprecedented changes for American workers and organized labor. As the economy plummeted, employers cut wages and laid off workers, while
The Marion Massacre
Language: en
Pages: 116
Authors: Mike Lawing
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-11 - Publisher:

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Buried in the collective memory of Marion, North Carolina lives a shadowy story of struggle, of power and of blood in the streets. Mike Lawing exhumes this tale