Title: Oral history interview with Eula McGill, December 12, 1974
Description: Eula McGill talks about being raised in a family of Alabama textile workers and gaining an early appreciation for unions despite the physical threats to workers and organizers from bosses and non-union workers. She shares well-formulated thoughts about union members' motivations being not just about garnering a living wage, but establishing personal and economic independence in a world ruled by company stores and company-owned housing. Despite some failings, she says, unions do more than any other institutions to improve the conditions of working people.
Subjects: Interviews, Labor unions, Officials and employees, Women labor union members, Attitudes, Women textile workers, Organizing, Textile workers, African American labor union members
Places: Southern States
People: Eula McGill (1911-2003)