Strikers outside the Clark thread Mill in Austell, Georgia, 1934. Courtesy of the Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University.

Striking workers fresh from a confrontation with the police outside the Trion Cotton Mill in Trion, Georgia, 1934. A deputy sheriff and union loyalist were killed in the clash. After the fight the pickets re-formed their lines and closed the mill. Courtesy of the Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University.