Tennessee’s Textile Mill Girls: From the Labor Movement to the War Years

With Amanda McCrary Smith, Doctoral Candidate, MTSU, Regional Historic Preservation Planner

April 6 | 3 pm | Turner Auditorium | Free to the public; does not include museum admission

Despite unsafe work conditions, poor wages, and discriminatory practices, the textile workers, or “Mill Girls” as they were often called in newspapers and photographs, became one of the most powerful, organized, and collective voices for labor rights and unionization. As an American Material Culture and Historic Preservation scholar, Amanda McCrary Smith will discuss several of Tennessee’s most well-known textile and garment factories, the working women who made them run and who, eventually, became the face of reform for all of the country’s textile and garment workers.

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