True Lives : The Uprising of '34 (2005)
Directed by George Stoney / Judith Helfand
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Synopsis
"The Uprising of '34," a 1995 examination of a little-known strike by approximately 400,000 Southern textile workers frustrated by poor conditions in the mills. The strike is re-created through interviews, and for those involved the uprising and its ugly aftermath represented "the closest thing that this country has had to a revolution." The strike's legacy: a tremendous mistrust of unions.
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grassroots, mill-worker, striker, uprising, class-clash, Great-Depression, race-relations, Southerner, working-class, democracy, intimidation
