Ella May Wiggins
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Gender | Female |
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Death | 95 years ago |
Born | Sevierville |
Tennessee | |
United States | |
Died | Gaston County |
North Carolina | |
United States | |
Date of birth | September 17,1900 |
Zodiac sign | Virgo |
Date of died | September 14,1929 |
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ID | 3513581 |
Ella May Wiggins Life story
Ella May Wiggins was a union organizer and balladeer who was killed during the Loray Mill Strike in Gastonia, North Carolina. According to Like a Family, a 1987 account of "the making of a Southern cotton mill world," the Gastonia protest collapsed in the aftermath of Wiggins's death.