||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Poignant account of a mill mother's passionate struggle for fair treatment|By Frank Rubio|Review by Kathy Rubio: This book surrounds local history of the area in which I grew up, western Gaston County, NC. Gaston County was at one time the textile capital of the world. My own grandparents worked at the "Osage" textile mill in Bessemer City, NC all of their adult lives, unti||"fascinating and recommend[ed]"--Northern of Books.|About the Author|Kristina Horton, the great-granddaughter of Ella May, is a public elementary teacher in Asheville, North Carolina.
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 in Gaston County. Her efforts to organize black workers—along with her brash, outspoken manner—incensed the local community and she was shot by an anti-union vigil...
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