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[Identification of item], in the Robert E. Botsch Papers on the Brown Lung Association #5785, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Received from Robert E. Botsch in April 2014 (Acc. 103528)

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• Cotton dust--Health aspects--Southern States.
• Cotton manufacture--Health aspects--Southern States.
• Occupational diseases.
• Textile industry--Southern States.
• Textile workers--Health and hygiene--Southern States.
• Workers' compensation--Law and legislation.
• Botsch, Robert Emil, 1947-
• Brown Lung Association--History.

• Brown Lung Association Records (#04463)

Robert Emil Botsch is a white author and distinguished professor emeritus of political science at the University of South Carolina Aiken, where his coursework focused on American politics and institutions, southern politics, South Carolina politics, research methods, and public opinion. His publications include We Shall Not Overcome: Populism and Southern Blue-Collar Workers (1980), You Can't Have It Both Ways: The Difficulties of Unionization in the South (1981), Organizing the Breathless: Cotton Dust, Southern Politics, and the Brown Lung Association (1993), and African-Americans and the Palmetto State (1994), among others.

Papers and audio recordings on the Brown Lung Association (BLA) compiled by white author and political science professor, Robert E. Botsch. The majority of the materials relate to Botsch's 1993 publication, Organizing the Breathless: Cotton Dust, Southern Politics, and the Brown Lung Association, which recounts the history of the BLA and the organizing efforts of southern textile workers in the 1970s. Papers consist of newsletters, meeting agendas, pamphlets, and other materials produced by the BLA and related organizations, as well as Botsch's personal research files, including clippings, notes, and correspondence related to grassroots organizing efforts and the organizational, legal, and financial activities of the BLA. Topics include recruitment, fundraising, dust standards, and workers' compensation. Audio recordings consist of interviews and recordings from a symposium on "Cotton Dust Standards", which took place in Charlotte, N.C. in 1982. Interviewees on the recordings include BLA organizers, Greg Campbell and Karen Scharff, as well as South Carolina senator, Tommy Moore. Recordings are on audiocassette.

• Audiocassettes (C-05785/1-9)