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Cotton Strike

NPR
Published June 24, 1995 at 11:00 PM CDT

Jacki talks to film maker George Stoney and former cotton mill worker Lucille Thornburgh about the film the "Uprising of '34" to be aired on Public Television on Tuesday June 27th. Stoney tells how he wanted to let the people involved in the cotton strike tell their own story - and Lucille Thornburgh, now 85, was one of those that was there...

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