Cabbagetown

This guide to Cabbagetown in Atlanta opens with the moment the cotton mill's looms went silent on May 20th, 1914, and traces the arrangement mill owner Jacob Elsas built between his factory and the shotgun houses he rented to his own workers. You'll meet his son Oscar, who had just inherited the mill when roughly five hundred weavers and loom fixers walked out over child labor, low wages and union firings. Listen for how far Oscar was willing to go to bring them back.