In the late summer of 1934, the small mill town of Honea Path, South Carolina, found itself at the epicenter of a national labor dispute. Tensions that had been simmering for months finally boiled over, forever altering the community and the lives of its residents. Among those caught in the maelstrom was a 25-year-old man named Claude Cannon.
On the morning of September 6th, a day that would come to be known as 'Bloody Thursday,' Cannon joined hundreds of his fellow textile workers on the
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