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- Title
Mill Mother's Lament.
- Authors
Huber, Patrick
- Abstract
An essay is presented discussing the poet and song composer Ella May Wiggins and her involvement with the Gastonia, North Carolina textile strike of 1929. Her work is described as combining traditional balladry with leftist union politics that presaged the protest songs of the Great Depression era. Wiggins early life as part of a migrant family in Blue Ridge Mountains is described. Details of how she was murdered during the textile strike at age 29 and public reaction to crime is recounted.
- Subjects
GASTONIA (N.C.); NORTH Carolina; ESSAYS; WIGGINS, Ella May, 1900-1929; LORAY Mill Strike, 1929; PROTEST songs; POLITICAL crimes &; offenses; POLITICAL ballads &; songs; 21ST century (Literary period)
- Publication
Southern Cultures, 2009, Vol 15, Issue 3, p81
- ISSN
1068-8218
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1353/scu.0.0068