Southside : Eufaula's cotton mill village and its people, 1890-1945
Southside relates the stories of the cotton mill workers and their families who lived and worked in Eufaula, Alabama, a small town on the Chattahoochee River, from the 1890s through 1945. The book also provides an in-depth historical examination of Eufaula's race relations, racial violence, and the impact of the Civil War and the Myth of the Lost Cause on the town's future evolution.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780881466089
- ISBN: 0881466085
- Physical Description: 221 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Macon, Georgia : Mercer University Press, 2017.
- Copyright: �2017
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-207) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Author's note: "Miss Oma" -- Prologue: "The man with his backside to Southside" -- Confluence: history, myth, and memory in Eufaula -- "Phoenix" rising on the Chattahoochee: Eufaula's rebirth as a cotton mill town -- Like threads in a skein: Southside's families and friends -- "Mr. Donald" and his mill workers -- Bands, kindergarten, and baseball: the creation and evolution of Eufaula's Cowikee Community House -- The walls come down: the Great Depression and World War II -- Epilogue: images of Southside. |
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