In the first episode of Season 3, Paige, Reginis, and Celisse present excerpts from the oral history of textile worker and labor activist, Nanny Leah Washburn, connecting her experiences as a textile worker to the present-day textile workers. There are many similarities and differences between the working conditions of those in the industry then and now. Low pay, poorly kept physical working environments, anti-union employers, and racism are just some of the things that textile workers have dealt with in the past and continue to deal with today. Unfortunately, not much has been done to improve many of their conditions, and this episode will shed light on that and bring awareness to their struggle.
Cover Photo: "Nanny Washburn at an anti-Nixon demonstration in Atlanta." L1991-13_04_19_007, Series 4: Photographs, 1940-1985, Southern Conference Educational Fund, Southern Labor Archives, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library, Atlanta, Georgia. https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/digital/collection/labor/id/21942/rec/1. Accessed 11 December 2024.
