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Striking textile workers outside the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill, 1934. Despite promises of reform made after the General Textile Strike of 1934, conditions in many mills did not improve until 1941, when the United States entered World War II.

Courtesy of Special Collections & Archives, Georgia State University Library.

Textile Strike

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