The July 12th, 1934, textile workers strike at the Dwight Cotton Mill, highlighted here on the front page of the Gadsden daily newspaper, was the first in a string of strikes that led to the largest labor conflict in U.S. history.
Gadsden Textile Strike
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Courtesy of the the Alabama Department of Archives and History
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