TY  - GEN
T1  - Martyr of Loray Mill : Ella May and 1929 textile workers' strike in Gastonia, North Carolina
A1  - Horton, Kristina
LA  - English
PP  - Jefferson, North Carolina
PB  - McFarland & Company, Inc.
YR  - 2015
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn913784660
AB  - 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, at age 28. A mother of nine and bookkeeper for the communist-led National Textile Workers Union, May worked to organize fellow mill workers in Gaston County. Her efforts to organize black workers--along with her brash, outspoken manner--incensed the local community and she was shot by an anti-union vigilante group on September 14, 1929. Written by her great-granddaughter, this book tells Ella May's story, including her involvement in the.
OP  - 224
CN  - HD6073.T42
SN  - 9781476622439
SN  - 1476622434
SN  - 9780786499649
KW  - Wiggins, Ella May, : 1900-1929.
KW  - National Textile Workers Union (U.S.)
KW  - Wiggins, Ella May, : 1900-1929
KW  - Women textile workers : North Carolina : Biography.
KW  - Loray Mill Strike, 1929.
KW  - Strikes and lockouts : Textile industry : North Carolina : Gaston County : History.
KW  - Cotton textile industry : North Carolina : Gaston County : History.
KW  - Gaston County (N.C.) : History.
KW  - Travailleuses du textile : Caroline du Nord : Biographies.
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY : General.
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS : Labor.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Labor & Industrial Relations.
KW  - Cotton textile industry
KW  - Strikes and lockouts : Textile industry
KW  - Women textile workers
KW  - North Carolina
KW  - North Carolina : Gaston County
KW  - 1929
KW  - Biographies
KW  - History
ER  -