Ella May and the 1929 Textile Workers' Strike in Gastonia, North Carolina
by
Kristina Horton
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2015
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...