Ella May Wiggins

Ella May Wiggins
BornSeptember 22, 1900
Sevierville, Tennessee, U.S.
DiedSeptember 14, 1929(1929-09-14) (aged 28)
Gaston County, North Carolina, U.S.
Cause of deathGunshot wound
OccupationsLabor organizer and balladeer

Ella May Wiggins (22 September 1900 – September 14, 1929) 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. Her union, the National Textile Workers Union, ultimately was "too weak to challenge the economic and political power of the cotton manufacturers and to organize the labor force."

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