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Abstract | The Southern Oral History Program conducts and collects interviews with Southerners who have made significant contributions to various fields of human endeavor. In addition, the Program undertakes special projects with the purpose of rendering historically visible those whose experience is not reflected in traditional written sources. The Southern Oral History Program Collection, Series G: Southern Women contains interviews focused on women's participation in movements for social change. |
Creator | Southern Oral History Program. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English. |
Finding aid for Series G created and encoded by Laura Hart in April 2016.
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Back to TopIn 1973, the History Department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill established an oral history program devoted to the study of the southern region of the United States.
The Southern Oral History Program collects interviews with Southerners who have made significant contributions to various fields of human endeavor. In addition, the Program undertakes special projects with the purpose of rendering historically visible those whose experience is not reflected in traditional written sources. Interviews are conducted by Program staff, graduate students, faculty members, and consultants. The Program also serves as a collecting agency, accepting donations of tapes and transcripts of interviews conducted by other researchers.
Back to TopThe Southern Oral History Program Collection, Series G: Southern Women contains interviews focused on women's participation in movements for social change. The idea for a series of interviews with southern women originated with Jacquelyn Dowd Hall's study, Revolt Against Chivalry: Jessie Daniel Ames and the Women's Campaign Against Lynching (Columbia University Press, 1979), which looks at the role of women in the anti-lynching movement of the Depression decade. Other interviews, financed by a 1974 Rockefeller Foundation grant to the Southern Oral History Program, expanded this focus to include labor relations, race relations, and reform movements.
Many of the earlier interviews in this series deal with the experience of southern women in the critical period between the women's suffrage movement of the 1920s and the feminist movement of the 1960s. The individuals interviewed were active participants in many reform movements during this period. The interviews particularly explore the interaction between the women's private lives and their public activities.
Many of the women interviewed were born between 1890 and 1910. Thus, they matured politically during the 1930s, the era of the Great Depression, labor organization, and New Deal reform. They are from various social classes and are of different races. Many of the women can be grouped into three categories: women involved in labor and workers' education movements either as students or as teachers; black and white women active in the civil rights movement; and women who, in addition to their contributions to these reform movements, also pursued professional careers. A great number of them were affiliated with the Commission on Interracial Cooperation, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Southern Conference for Human Welfare, the Women's Division of the Southern Methodist Church, the Young Women's Christian Association, or the Southern Summer School for Women Workers.
ONLINE INTERVIEW DATABASE
Click here for the online, sortable list of oral history interviews in this series. Each interview is cataloged in the interview database with descriptive information about the interviewee and the contents of the interview. Transcriptions and audio recordings for many of the unrestricted interviews are available in this online database.
Back to TopInterviews focusing on women's participation in movements for social change. Many deal with southern women active in reform movements between the 1910s women's suffrage movement and the 1960s feminist movement. These interviews explore the interaction between the private lives and public activities of women representing various social classes and races. Interviewees include women who were involved in labor and workers' education movements; black and white women active in the civil rights movement; and women who, in addition to their contributions to these reform movements, also pursued professional careers. Many were affiliated with the Commission on Interracial Cooperation, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Southern Conference for Human Welfare, the Women's Division of the Southern Methodist Church, the Young Women's Christian Association, or the Southern Summer School for Women Workers.
ONLINE INTERVIEW DATABASE
Click here for the online, sortable list of oral history interviews in this series. Each interview is cataloged in the interview database with descriptive information about the interviewee and the contents of the interview. Transcriptions and audio recordings for many of the unrestricted interviews are available in this online database.
Mary Price Adamson, white political activist discusses her early life and education, employment at the Greensboro Daily News, New York during the Depression, work on the editorial staff of Business Week from 1943 to 1945, trade union movement and work for Southern Conference in North Carolina from 1945 to 1948, Henry A. Wallace's 1948 campaign, the McCarthy era, the Czech Embassy between 1948 and 1950, and the National Council of Churches between 1957 and 1969 with interviewer Mary Frederickson. 19 April 1976
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Pamela Parker Allen, white political activist, discusses her participation in the civil rights movement, the Mississippi Voter Registration Project, involvement in the women's liberation movement, experiences as a white exchange student from Carleton College in Minnesota to Spelman College a historically black college in Georgia in January 1964, tension between white and black student activists, Malcolm Boyd, involvement with Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and experiences teaching religion and black history in the Freedom School in Holly Springs, Miss., with interviewer Sara Boyte. 17 July 1973
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Jessie Daniel Ames, white political activist, discusses early exposure to segregation and discrimination, the Texas Commission on Interracial Cooperation (CIC), organizing against lynching in Texas, position as Director of Women's Work for the Commission, finances of the anti-lynching effort, participation of women from various church organizations in movement, involvement of sheriffs, assistance of the Associated Press, a study on domestic workers, Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching (ASWPL), opposition to women's activism, women's suffrage and suffrage movement, married women's property rights and equal pay, support of voting rights for blacks, Southern Regional Council, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, anti-racism activism during World War II, and Eleanor Roosevelt and Southern Conference for Human Welfare with interviewer Pat Waters. 1965 and 1966
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Lulu Daniel Ames, white political activist, discusses her mother Jessie Daniel Ames including strained relationships with family and her attitudes including those to race, grandmother's interest in the occult, Mrs. J.C. Andrews and Southern Women for the Preservation of the White Race, segregation at Tuskegee Institute, her battle with polio, surgeries, and physical limitations, the Southern Regional Council, and the uses of oral history with interviewer Jacquelyn Dowd Hall. 1972 and 1973
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Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson, white labor union leader, discusses family and educational background, the YWCA and specifically the industrial department, Louise McLaren, Southern Summer School, internal fights in the YWCA over religion, women and labor unions, Sherwood Anderson, and 1929 and 1930 mill strikes in Gastonia, N.C., and Danville, Va. with interviewer Mary Frederickson. 5 November 1974
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Harriette Arnow, white novelist, discusses her family heritage back to the Revolutionary War era, her upbringing in the Appalachian region, southern gender norms, her experiences in school, her college experience first at Berea College and then later at the University of Louisville, her work as a school teacher and principal in small, rural communities, her published works drawn from her experiences growing up in the South, her decision not to marry until she was in her thirties, her experiences in balancing work and family, her views on labor politics in the 1930s, and her reaction to critiques of her writing as both "transcendentalist" and "feminist." with interviewer Mimi Conway. April 1976
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Ella Baker, African American civil rights activist and leader in SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee), discusses her work in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) from the late 1930s into the early 1950s, the conditions of racial segregation and discrimination in the Jim Crow South, momentum for direct, collective action against segregation in the South following the Brown v. Board decision, how Martin Luther King, Jr., emerged as the chosen spokesperson and president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), why ministers were seen as appropriate leaders in the civil rights movement, philosophies of Christianity and Gandhi's non-violence, roles that leaders such as Bayard Rustin, Stanley Levinson, Rev. John Tilly, and King played in SCLC, gender and age as factors in her "behind-the-scenes" role, her role in the formation of SNCC, and tensions between SNCC and other organizations, including the SCLC and the NAACP with interviewer Eugene P. Walker. 4 September 1974
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Ella Baker, African American civil rights activist and leader in SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee), discusses her family history, the catalysts that pushed her into public activism, importance of the church to her family and community, economic pressures which led to migration of rural southern black families, including her own, to large cities, her experiences at Shaw University, her move to New York City, the Workers' Education Project (WEP), an alliance of cooperative businesses called the Cooperative League (CL),. the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, limitations placed on women in the NAACP and how she overcame them, her return to the South, the protests occurring in Montgomery, Ala., the founding of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and the important leaders who emerged from that organization with interviewers Sue Thrasher and Casey Hayden. 19 April 1977
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Daisy Bates, African American journalist, civil rights activist, and labor union leader, discusses civil rights activism, civil rights organizing, and school desegregation in Little Rock, Ark., with interviewer Elizabeth Jacoway. 11 October 1976
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Norma Berryhill, white women's rights activist, discusses early life on father's cotton farm in Warren County, N.C., education and interest in social work, education at Peace College, teaching sixth grade in Norlina, N.C., in the 1920s, enrollment at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Phi Beta Phi Sorority, reaction of male students to co-eds, job in Eden, N.C., directing a girls' club for female mill workers, YWCA, settlement house work in New York City, graduate study in social work at Columbia University, work as Dean of Girls, Charlotte, N.C. Senior High School, Cleveland, Ohio in the 1930s, work with Girls' Bureau in Cleveland, changes in Chapel Hill, N.C. during World War II, race relations, work as Christmas Seal chairman, her husband W. R. Berryhill's position as dean of the University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Medicine, her service as state president of Women's Medical Auxiliary, her role as founder of the University Women's Club, expansion of UNC's medical school to four-year program, opinion of present generation of young women, and future of women's clubs with interviewer Mary Friday. 9 March 1978
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Norma Berryhill, white women's rights activist, discusses early life on father's cotton farm in Warren County, N.C., education and interest in social work , education at Peace College, teaching sixth grade in Norlina, N.C., in the 1920s, enrollment at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Phi Beta Phi Sorority, reaction of male students to co-eds, job in Eden, N.C., directing a girls' club for female mill workers, YWCA , settlement house work in New York City, graduate study in social work at Columbia University, work as Dean of Girls, Charlotte, N.C. Senior High School, Cleveland, Ohio in the 1930s, work with Girls' Bureau in Cleveland, changes in Chapel Hill, N.C. during World War II, race relations, work as Christmas Seal chairman, her husband W. R. Berryhill's position as dean of the University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Medicine, her service as state president of Women's Medical Auxiliary, her role as founder of the University Women's Club, expansion of UNC's medical school to four-year program, opinion of present generation of young women, and future of women's clubs with interviewer Mary Friday. 9 March 1978
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Vivion Lenon Brewer, white political activist, discusses her affluent white family and lack of awareness as a child of the destructive impact of racism and segregation, her efforts with other prominent women in Little Rock, Ark., to organize the Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools (WEC) after Governor Orval Faubus closed the schools in the wake of Brown v. Board, WEC's original mission to ease racial tensions and the strategic reconfiguration of the mission to focus on reopening the public schools, the purposeful omission of black women from WEC, her later work developing educational programs for black children in the low-income Scott community of Little Rock, and contemporary race relations in Little Rock, Ark., with interviewer Elizabeth Jacoway. 15 October 1976
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Miriam Bonner Camp, white political activist, discusses growing up in Washington, N.C., in the early twentieth century, her mother's emphasis on education and community involvement, race relations, social hierarchies, religion, and education in Washington, assumptions people made about her as a southerner after her family moved to Azusa, Calif., college years at the University of California, Berkeley, Progressive-era figures including Jacob Riis and Jane Addams who inspired her, teaching at the North Carolina College for Women in Greensboro in the 1920s, women in the labor force and labor movement, involvement with the Southern Summer School in the late 1920s, trips to Europe in the 1930s where she observed the intensifying labor movement there and the rise of fascism in Italy and Germany, and her continued involvement in community activities with interviewer Mary Frederickson. 15 April 1976
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Adele Clark, white women's rights activist, suffragist, and artist, discusses the evolution of and her leadership in the women's suffrage movement, her role in the National League of Women Voters and its Virginia chapter, the Democratic National Convention (1912, 1924, 1928), the founding of the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia and the League of Women Voters in Virginia, voter registration efforts and obstacles faced by African American women, the formation of the Children's Commission Code, activists Carrie Chapman Catt and Lila Mead Valentine, state politicians Harry Byrd and George Walter Mapp, and personal attacks of character faced by suffragists with interviewer Winston Broadfoot. 12 July 1964 and 28 October 1964.
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Adele Clark, white women's rights activist, suffragist, and artist, discusses how her relationship with her family in general and her grandmother in particular led her to join various social reform movements, the receipt of a scholarship that allowed her to study art at the Chase School in New York (now the New York School of Art), opening an art studio in Richmond, Va., with Nora Houston, the Academy of Science and Fine Arts, Virginia Commission for the Arts, her initial steps into women's suffrage activism including the development of the Equal Suffrage League, and her work with the Richmond Chamber of Commerce to pass a bill abolishing child labor with interviewer Belinda Friedman. 22 January 1978
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Septima Clark, African American civil rights activist and citizenship educator, discusses her childhood in Charleston, S.C., and her family's efforts to survive poverty and racial prejudice, her early activism with the NAACP, her friendship with Judge and Mrs. Waring, her work with the Charleston, S.C., YWCA, her marriage to Nerie David Clark, lobbying for the first local credit union to serve black workers, working for the Highlander Folk School to encourage voter registration and education, her education work for the SCLC and because of her gender their dismissing her ideas for increasing community involvement, protecting labor rights of black teachers, and educating black voters, and her thoughts on why she began receiving recognition for her work in the 1970s with interviewer Jacquelyn Dowd Hall. 25 July 1976
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Septima Clark, African American civil rights activist and citizenship educator, discusses the successes of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, particularly with passage of the Voting Rights Act, some challenges of working with the SCLC, including prejudice against female leaders, police violence, the Ku Klux Klan, and class prejudice from SCLC leaders, her efforts in helping leaders develop techniques for serving the rural poor, the leadership strategies of Andrew Young, Wyatt T. Walker, and Ralph Abernathy, and the leadership of Andrew Young and Jesse Jackson with interviewer Jacquelyn Dowd Hall. 30 July 1976
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Alice Cobb, white political activist discusses the Scarritt College for Christian Workers in Nashville, Tenn., with interviewers Jacquelyn Dowd Hall and Robert Hall. 15 February 1972
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Alice Hanson Cook, white college professor, discusses the Bryn Mawr Summer School and Southern Summer School programs, the backgrounds and commonalities of the women involved in the movement, class consciousness in working class women circa 1930, Elizabeth Gilman, the communist affiliations of Holly Ransdale, Beulah Howard, and Louise McLaren's husband, Socialist Party affiliations, the Southern Tenant Farmers Union, differences between the administration of Louise McLaren and Brownie Lee Jones, work with the Congress of Industrial Workers (CIO), the Works Progress Administration (WPA), and the Depression with interviewer Jacquelyn Dowd Hall. 31 October 1974
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Mildred Price Coy, white civil rights activist, discusses her family history and the development of her egalitarian ideals, her involvement in various justice movements of the twentieth century, societal changes she witnessed, attending North Carolina Women's College and the University of North Carolina, working in various rural school districts in North Carolina, being recruited by Louise Leonard McLaren to work as a secretary for the YWCA, and the work she did for the YWCA in Lynchburg, Va., with interviewer Mary Frederickson. 26 April 1976
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Brooks Spivey Creedy, white women's rights activist, discusses her childhood in the north with southern parents, attending Agnes Scott College and her favorite professor Arthur Franklin Raper, attending graduate school at the University of North Carolina, the American Student Union, her marriage to John Alan Gough Creedy and their four children, her work on the YWCA Industrial Movement, her efforts toward racial integration, her husband's failed efforts to publish a labor newspaper in Durham, N.C., Southern Summer School and its closing, segregation in the 1930s, and communist attempts to infiltrate organizations in the 1940s with interviewer Mary Frederickson. 14 July 1975
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Edith M. Dabbs, white author, discusses her middle class childhood in South Carolina, family background of her husband, James McBride Dabbs, the development of their understanding of racial inequality--from believing the Civil War had solved the "race question" to recognizing the impact of Jim Crow segregation--their work for racial justice, speaking out against state legislation prohibiting the registration of African American voters, experience of alienation and opposition, surreptitious nature of organizing, particularly a meeting in Montgomery, Ala., paternalism, United Church Women and the South Carolina group's reputation for espousing integration, Virginia Durr and Clifford Durr, Robert Frost, St. Helena Island, S.C., and the Penn School, about which she wrote two books, children, and life on Rip Rap Plantation with interviewer Elizabeth Jacoway Burns. 4 October 1974
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Virginia Foster Durr, white political activist, discusses early life on her grandmother's plantation, how she became aware of social injustice plaguing twentieth-century America, stories about the antebellum South from her grandmother, race relations between her family and the black workers they employed, grandmother's sense of noblesse oblige, relationship with father, parents' advancement in Birmingham society, southern female gender identity issues including sexuality and divisions along race and class lines, finishing school in New York City, sister Josephine's marriage to future United States Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, attending Wellesley College for two years and the impact it had on her behaviors and relationships in Alabama, spending a year as a debutante and failing to find an eligible offer, working at a law library, and meeting her future husband, Clifford, with interviewers Clifford J. Durr, Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, and Sue Thrasher. 13 March 1975
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Virginia Foster Durr, white political activist, discusses her growing awareness of social problems in the South, particularly poverty, the couple's move to Washington, D.C., for Clifford Durr's new job at the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, working with Eleanor Roosevelt in the women's division of the Democratic Party, poll tax, Clark Foreman, Lyndon B. Johnson, John L. Lewis and Katheryn Lewis, Tallulah Bankhead, flogging of Joseph Gelders in Birmingham, Ala., La Follette Liberties Committee Hearings, complicity of her family and friends in the violence and injustice of the South, organizing the 1938 Southern Conference for Human Welfare, Mary McLeod Bethune, experiences traveling with Bethune during segregation, anti-Communist sentiment and the Red Scare, President Harry S. Truman's Loyalty Oath and its impact on Clifford's career, and campaigning for Henry Wallace in 1948 with interviewers Clifford J. Durr, Bob Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, and Sue Thrasher. 14 March 1975
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Virginia Foster Durr, white political activist, discusses Clifford Durr's time with the Reconstruction Finance Commission, the contrast between Clifford's chaotic working life in Washington, D.C., and the peace Virginia found in Seminary Hill in Alexandria, Va., comparison of aristocracy of Seminary Hill to the nouveau riche in Birmingham, Ala., James M. Landis and Stella Landis, the New Deal, working in the women's division of the Democratic National Party and the racialized nature of their lobbying group, President Franklin Roosevelt and the anti-poll tax effort, poverty in the South, "The South: Economic Problem Number One," Mary McLeod Bethune, Lucy Randolph Mason, 1938 Southern Conference on Human Welfare, her disappointment with 1950s anti-Communism sentiments, the effect of the Red Scare on groups Durr admired, unraveling of her anti-poll tax committee, sexual harassment on Capitol Hill, Vito Marcantonio and Miriam Marcantonio, Lee Pressman and Sonny Pressman, President Franklin Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt, belief that FDR's death changed the attitude of the nation, and the Federal Communications Commission with interviewer Sue Thrasher. 16 October 1975
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Willie Snow Ethridge, white author, discusses her motivations for becoming a writer, studying journalism at Wesleyan College in Macon, Ga., working as a reporter and freelance writer, writing books, involvement in the anti-lynching movement and the Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching, writing and speaking out against lynching and its implications for African Americans and poor whites, growing up in a religious Baptist family in the South, lack of sexual knowledge growing up, the feminist movement, the sexual revolution, and disapproval of couples' having sex outside of marriage with interviewers Mark F. Ethridge and Lee Kessler. 15 December 1975
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Wil Lou Gray, white educator and literacy activist and former vice president of the YWCA, discusses attending Columbia College, serving as vice president of the YWCA, working as the business manager of Criterion, Columbia College's monthly magazine, teaching in rural South Carolina, taking summer courses at Winthrop College, tutoring two cousins in Youngs, S.C., raising money for a new school house, pursuing graduate studies at Vanderbilt University, supporting women's suffrage, the impact of her time at Vanderbilt on her race and class consciousness, working to end illiteracy in Columbia, S.C., the importance of women in South Carolina politics and history, and her involvement in opportunity schools in mill towns throughout the South with interviewer Constance Ashton Myers. 14 June 1974
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Grace Towns Hamilton, African American political activist, discusses her family history and possible relationship to a woman enslaved by secessionist Georgia governor George Towns, growing up in Atlanta, father's roles at Atlanta University and in the NAACP, her mother's involvement in Gate City Kindergarten Association, the Atlanta University community, emerging awareness of racial segregation and discrimination after leaving Atlanta for Columbus, Ohio, working with the YWCA, attending graduate school in Ohio, living in Memphis, Tenn., serving as director of Atlanta's branch of the Urban League, investigating inequalities in segregated education, advocating for voter registration, providing access to housing for African Americans, the Southern Tenant Farmers Union, the Southern Regional Council, her relationship with other leading activists, the sit-in movement of 1960 in Atlanta, and her election to the Georgia state legislature in 1965 with interviewer Jacquelyn Dowd Hall. 19 July 1974
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Harriet Herring, white sociologist, discusses her early life and experiences studying labor in North Carolina mill towns in the first half of the twentieth century, her efforts to study the high turnover at cotton mills and the industry's resistance to her investigations, her family, and Howard T. Odum with interviewers Mary Frederickson and Nevin Brown. 5 February 1976
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Lucy Somerville Howorth, white judge, discusses her mother's political activism as a Mississippi state legislator and suffragist and the impact it had on her own sensibilities, her involvement in the women's suffrage movement, organizing an Equal Rights Club while attending Randolph-Macon Women's College, attending graduate school at Columbia University, working for the Bureau of Allied Aircraft, working for the YWCA industrial department, attending law school at the University of Mississippi because Columbia's law school did not admit women, graduating at the top of her class as one of only two women, practicing law and being appointed judge, marrying Joseph Howorth, serving on the Mississippi state legislature, Franklin Delano Roosevelt appointing her to serve on the Board of Veteran Appeals, working actively to get women appointed to federal positions, the American Association of University Women, the national Association of Women Lawyers, and the Professional and Businesswomen's Club with interviewer Constance Ashton Myers. June 1975
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Guion Griffis Johnson, white historian and sociologist, discusses working with Howard T. Odum, the University of North Carolina Department of Sociology, community activities, copy-editing the Journal of Social Forces, research projects on St. Helena's Island, S.C., and antebellum North Carolina, earning a Ph.D. in history, the University of North Carolina's laying off married female academics in 1930 to cut costs, working without receiving wages, and going back to work as a professor at Baylor College with interviewers Mary Frederickson and Jacquelyn Dowd Hall. 24 April 1974
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Guion Griffis Johnson, white historian and sociologist, discusses her involvement in the women's movement, her efforts to balance work and family, her childhood, the women's suffrage movement, decision to marry Guy Benton Johnson, the importance of having outside help in raising a family, changing role of women in society during the twentieth century, her involvement in women's voluntary organizations, the impact of advances in birth control, abortion, and the evolving nature of marriage, divorce, and family with interviewer Mary Frederickson. 17 May 1974
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Guion Griffis Johnson, white historian and sociologist, discusses her education, work with the Institute for Research in Social Science, participation in the Carnegie-Myrdal Study of the Negro in America, challenges of being a woman academic during the 1920s through the early 1940s, her childhood in Greenville, Tex., Howard T. Odum, opposition faced by the Institute for Research in Social Science and academics with progressive views of both race and gender, race relations in the South, her efforts to challenge salary disparities, her experiences as one of the few female graduate students and professors at UNC, and being part of a "husband and wife team" in academia with interviewer Mary Frederickson. 28 May 1974
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Guion Griffis Johnson, white historian and sociologist, discusses her work with the Georgia Conference on Southern Welfare and the interracial dynamics, her involvement in the civil rights movement and the women's rights movement in Chapel Hill, N.C., Guy Johnson's becoming the first director of the Southern Regional Council, efforts to establish a juvenile court in Albany, Ga., George Talmadge's political machine, the merits of both gradual change for race relations and direct action including establishing an African American child care center in Chapel Hill, N.C., being active in various women's organizations, being a forerunner in the work of the North Carolina Commission on the Status of Women, the Equal Rights Amendment, the student sit-in movement, and the need for black leadership to take a more dominant role in the civil rights movement of the 1960s with interviewer Mary Frederickson. 1 July 1974
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Brownie Lee Jones, white women's rights activist and YWCA leader, discusses her childhood and family background, Oklahoma College for Women, working in the YWCA Industrial Department in Denver, labor conditions in Denver in the 1920s, working for the YWCA in Flint, Mich., Richmond, Va., and San Francisco, Calif., work with the California State Department of Welfare in 1938-1939, the Office of Public Affairs in California, the Army Health Department during World War II, returning to Richmond, Va., as Director of the Southern School for Workers in 1944, working in labor education from 1944 to 1950, the Congress of Industrial Organizations' Political Action Committee (CIO-PAC), anti-poll tax legislation, comparison of American Federation of Labor (AFL) and the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) labor education in the late 1940s, assessment of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare, the Virginia NAACP, working with the United Nations International School and ALES from 1952 to 1962, and modern labor education with interviewer Mary Frederickson. 20 April 1976
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Mary King, white political activist, discusses an Ohio Wesleyan University Student YWCA sponsored trip to Atlanta, Ga., where she met members of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), an interview for a YWCA position to work on a special human relations project, secretly bringing together black and white students who had never interacted with the other race, communications work for SNCC in Danville, Va., the film "Black Natchez" by Ed Pincus, and interpersonal relationships and race relations within the groups with which she affiliated with interviewer Sara Boyte. 24 July 1973
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Cornelia Spencer Love, white author, discusses her family, life at the University of North Carolina in the "old days," her relationship with Chapel Hill's African American community, Kemp Plummer Battle, Frank Porter Graham, her grandmother Cornelia Phillips Spencer's attitudes toward women and education, her brother J. Spencer Love founder of Burlington Industries, and her relationship with African American educator Charlotte Hawkins Brown with interviewer Lee Kessler. 26 January 1975
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Grace Lumpkin, white teacher, author, and YWCA worker, discusses her family background, childhood, education, early employment as a teacher, involvement in the YWCA and work in France after World War II, work with The World Tomorrow radio program, involvement with the socialist movement and labor struggles, Whitaker Chambers, demonstrations during the Sacco-Vanzetti case, involvement with the Communist Party, husband Michael Intrator, communists in the South during the 1920s and 1930s, disenchantment and break with the Communist Party, estrangement and divorce from her husband, proletariat novels she wrote, relationship with sister, Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin, testifying before the McCarthy committee, and the Southern Summer School in the 1930s with interviewer Jacquelyn Dowd Hall. 6 August 1974
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Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin, white writer and sociologist, discusses growing up in a southern family, her father's championing of the "Lost Cause," realization that race is socially constructed, work with the YWCA while a student at Brenau University in Georgia, service as the YWCA national student secretary for the South during the early 1920s, importance of the social gospel to the work of the YWCA, role of African American women working for the YWCA, the YWCA's work to develop collaborative, interracial groups and to promote awareness of the challenges faced by working women, doctoral studies at the University of Wisconsin, early academic career, Angelina Grimke and Sarah Grimke, relationship with her sister Grace Lumpkin, similarities and differences in the sisters' career trajectories, the Institute of Labor Studies (ILS), and her book The South in Progress with interviewer Jacquelyn Dowd Hall. 4 August 1974
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Lois McDonald, white teacher and women's rights activist, discusses her 1920s YWCA assignment to study conditions and relationships in southern textile towns, experiences in Greenville, S.C., Marjorie Potwin, women mill workers in the 1920s and 1930s, YWCA industrial clubs, Louise Leonard McLaren, the Southern Summer School's origin, funding, and early teachers, Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore, Md., the Garland Fund, relationship of the Southern Summer School to southern labor organizations and affiliated schools, Cone Mills in Greensboro, N.C., Harriett Elliott, Claire Atkins and Willard Atkins, attitude of summer school students toward southern white liberals such as Frank Porter Graham, influential people associated with the Southern Summer School, class-consciousness and the woman worker, Marion, N.C., during the 1929 Loray Mill strike and resulting trial in Gastonia, N.C., Fred Beal and Red Hendricks, voting legislation for women, 1920s child labor laws in North Carolina, League of Women Voters, Church Home for Girls in Atlanta, Ga., Grace Lumpkin, and a 1937 trip to Russia and Germany with interviewer Marion W. Roydhouse. 24 June 1975
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Lois McDonald, white teacher and women's rights activist, discusses her southern family origins, her childhood in the South, class discrimination against mill workers in Winnsboro, S.C., attending College for Women in Columbia, S.C., and Erskine College in Due West, S.C., YWCA Training School and her job as student secretary in Greensboro, N.C., her year at London School of Economics, doctorate coursework at Columbia University and New York University, influence of the YWCA and Y student conferences during college, work project in Atlanta, Ga., textile mill, work at national Y board and description of Y industrial secretaries, study of mill villages for dissertation, which was published as "Southern Mill Hills", and Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry and Southern Summer School with interviewer Mary Frederickson. 25 August 1977
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Margaret McDow MacDougall, white women's rights activist, discusses her family background and childhood, mill families and racial segregation in York, S.C., gradual change in her views of segregation, conservativism and homogeneity of Agnes Scott College, training school in Richmond, Va., Bible teaching in Holly Springs, Miss., working as an instructor at Winthrop College, her 1928 marriage and her husband's lumber business, the Works Progress Administration, the Atlanta Housing Authority, her inability to have children, her husband's government career in Washington, D.C., contracting work, and interest in politics and civic affairs, League of Women Voters in 1943, pro-integration work through League and her church, threats from segregationists, Woman of the Year award, working in political campaigns, election to Chair of the City Executive Committee in Atlanta, Ga., 1952 Adlai Stevenson campaign, Ivey Study Commission, Whitehead Foundation neighborhood program, Atlanta Charter Commission, women in politics, and Christian Relations Committee of the Presbyterian Church with interviewer Mary Frederickson. 1 April 1977
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Emily MacLachlan, white sociologist, discusses her family history and childhood in Jackson, Miss., her mother's childhood as the daughter of a Methodist minister and a school teacher, mother's work outside the home as a social activist, Jessie Daniel Ames, Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching, mother's generation and their paternalistic approach towards solving problems of racial inequality, that generation's primary focus on addressing racial violence and health problems rather than systemic change, incomplete work toward a master's degree in sociology University of North Carolina, life in Chapel Hill with her husband, his unexpected death in the 1950s, decision to return to school and pursue a career, radical politics and social justice issues in the 1930s, the U.S. Resettlement Administration, Julius Rosenwald Fund in Georgia, brother's legal work in civil rights, women's hardships in balancing work, family life, and social activism with interviewers Jacquelyn Dowd Hall and Hugh P. Brinton. 16 July 1974
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Eulah McGill, white textile worker and labor leader, discusses her childhood as the daughter of textile workers in Alabama, early appreciation for unions despite physical threats from bosses and non-union workers, thoughts on union members' motivations to establish personal and economic independence in a world ruled by companies that employed them with interviewer Lewis Lipsitz. 12 December 1974
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Eulah McGill, white textile worker and labor leader, discusses growing up in Georgia and Alabama mill towns in the early twentieth century, Gulf State steel mill, education in a mill town, departure from school at the age of 14 because of economic hardships, finding work as a spinner in the Dwight textile mills, marriage and children, her parents' being the primary caregivers for her son, job behind the candy counter at Kress's department store in Birmingham, Ala., job as a spinner at Selma Manufacturing in Selma, Ala., the Depression, involvement in labor activism, role in organizing a local union, general strike in 1934, Women's Trade Union League, Amalgamated Clothing Workers' Union, obstacles faced by the labor movement in the South, and what it was like to be a single woman who worked as a labor organizer with interviewer Jacquelyn Dowd Hall. 3 February 1976
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Eulah McGill, white textile worker and labor leader, discusses her work in the southern labor movement from the 1930s through the 1970s, views on workers' education and labor leadership, teaching workers about the history of the labor movement, her role in Operation Dixie in the 1940s, labor campaigns in Lafollette, Tenn., Dixon, Tenn., and Bruceton, Tenn., Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union in the South, dedicating her life to the labor movement, being a single woman in the predominantly male labor movement, transient lifestyle, and challenges she faced trying to organize both men and women with interviewer Jacquelyn Dowd Hall. 5 September 1976
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Myron McLaren, white community organizer, political activist, and labor leader, discusses Louise McLaren's childhood and early career, her work with the YWCA industrial department, the Southern Summer School, Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), and the Girl Scouts, the Southern Summer School's relationship with unions, Eleanor Coit, Pearl Willen, Myron McLaren, New York teachers unions, Mary Barker, Elizabeth Gilman, Eleanor Anderson, Louise McLaren's political affiliations, the New Deal, and Norman Thomas with interviewer Mary Frederickson. 4 November 1974
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Myra Page, white author and political activist, discusses her childhood, life at college, working with girls in industrial reform school, working with the Red Cross during World War I, employment as a teacher in Richmond, Va., graduate work at Columbia University from 1918 to 1919, life in New York City at the close of World War I, employment with the YWCA, attempts to unionize mill girls in the South, working as a shop girl and clothing worker in Philadelphia, Pa., union work in St. Louis, Mo., and Philadelphia, Pa., doctoral work at the University of Minnesota, union work in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn., publication of Southern Cotton Mills and Labor and Gathering Storm, 1931 trip to Russia and the publication of Soviet Main Street in 1933, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, reporting in the South during the 1930s, wartime work during World War I1, teaching at Commonwealth College and the Highlander Folk School, and her involvement in the civil rights movement with interviewer Mary Frederickson. 12 July 1975
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Evelyn Smith Munroe, white agricultural worker and political activist, discusses her childhood, early involvement with the Socialist Party in New Orleans, La., working for the Southern Tenant Farmers Union in Memphis, Tenn., H. L. Mitchell, Claude Weems, Claude Williams, Willie Sue Blagden, Sam Franklin and the Delta Cooperative Farms, Quaker work camp, Frank McCallister, her evaluation of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union's strengths and weaknesses, the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America (UCAPAWA) convention in Memphis, Tenn., organizing for the International Lady Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) in Knoxville, Tenn., and the strike she called, the Southern Conference for Human Welfare, Keep America Out of War Congress in Washington, D.C., Mike Yarrow and Margaret Yarrow, work for the Worker's Defense League in New York City, Dave Clendenin, working as secretary in the Manhattan Project's New York office, moving to California and working as the International Lady Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) education director, establishing nursery schools in places like Almadena, Calif., and Nigeria, a 1960 visit to Cuba during Castro's overthrow of the government, and working with the American Cancer Society in Chicago with interviewer Mary Frederickson. 17 April 1976
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Pauli Murray, African American author and political activist, discusses growing up in Durham, N.C., race relations in North Carolina, class distinctions and hierarchies related to skin tone, racial violence, racial identity, Hunter College in New York, N.Y., her poetry, admissions at the University of North Carolina in 1938, arrest and prison term for violating segregation statutes in Petersburg, Va., Workers' Defense League, legal defense effort for Odell Waller, an African American sharecropper sentenced to death for the murder of his white landlord, Howard University Law School, University of California, Berkeley, her positions with the Attorney General in California and with a law firm in New York, trip to Ghana in the 1960s, position as a law professor at Brandeis University, involvement with the President's Commission on the Status of Women and with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, decision to enter the seminary, belief that the civil rights and women's liberation movements had become too militant, her book Proud Shoes, and her views on racial and class differences within the women's movement with interviewer Genna Rae McNeil. 13 February 1976
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Wallace North, white women's rights activist, discusses abortion and government policy in Georgia with interviewer Constance Ashton Myers. 29 May 1976
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Frances Freeborn Pauley, white author and political activist, discusses attending Agnes Scott College in the 1920s, establishing a free medical clinic in Dekalb County, Ga., her involvement with public education and school integration, serving as the DeKalb County, Ga., president and state president of the League of Women Voters, League's fight with Gov. Eugene Talmadge who wanted abolish public schools in an effort to thwart desegregation, serving as director of the Georgia Council on Human Relations, advocating for African American leadership and interracial organization in the civil rights movement, Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and civil rights activism in Newton, Ga., and Albany, Ga., with interviewer Jacquelyn Dowd Hall. 18 July 1974
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Mabel Pollitzer, white women's rights activist, discusses her family background, participation in the South Carolina women's suffrage movement, the National Women's Party, Woodrow Wilson's response to women's demands for suffrage, perceptions of women's rights leaders Susan Frost, Ruth McInness, and Alice Paul, encouraging women students' interest in science, role in banning the sale of fireworks, and helping pass legislation for a free library in Charleston, S.C., with interviewer Constance Ashton Myers. 19 September 1973
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Mabel Pollitzer, white women's rights activist, discusses Susan Pringle Frost the first president of the Charleston Equal Suffrage League, the 1917 split between the National American Woman Suffrage Association and the National Woman's Party, which was founded by Alice Paul and supported the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, efforts to change school policies that dismissed female teachers when they married, and thoughts on specific South Carolina suffragists and how they aligned themselves when the movement split with interviewer Constance Ashton Myers. 16 June 1974
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Mabel Pollitzer, white women's rights activist, discusses the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) and women's suffrage in South Carolina with interviewer Stephanie Davis. 1 August 1974
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Anne Queen, white women's director of the Campus Y at UNC Chapel Hill, discusses identity as a New Deal Democrat, growing interest in the labor movement during the 1930s and reconciling it with her religious faith, attending Berea College in Kentucky, interacting with African Americans for the first time and a growing involvement in social justice issues, participating in interracial workshop at Fisk University, studying at the Missionary Training School in Louisville, Ky., attending Yale Divinity School, influence of teachers Liston Pope and Reinhold Niebuhr, working as an assistant chaplain at the University of Georgia (1948-1951), the Friends Service Committee in Greensboro, N.C. (1951-1956), and as the director of the YWCA-YMCA at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1956-1975), the changing social landscape of the South during the mid-twentieth century, perceptions of the leadership abilities of women such as Dorothy Tillman and Jessie Daniel Ames, integration at two southern universities, and the nature of politics in North Carolina with interviewer Joseph A. Herzenberg. 30 April 1976
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Anne Queen, white women's director of the Campus Y at UNC Chapel Hill, discusses the changing political landscape during the mid-twentieth century, left-wing political groups at the University of North Carolina during the 1950s and 1960s, the Progressive Labor Club and her decision as director of the YWCA-YMCA not to sponsor the organization, radical politics in the South, formation of the Fellowship of Southern Churchmen and the Southern Regional Council, palatable alternatives for religious southerners to communism and Marxism, the Southern Students Organizing Committee, Students for Democratic Society at the University of North Carolina, growing apathy of students on university campuses, Michael Paul controversy at the University of North Carolina and its ramifications for academic freedom, President Jimmy Carter, and Congressman Andrew Young with interviewer Joseph A. Herzenberg. 22 November 1976
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Hollace Ransdall, white teacher, discusses Southern Summer School for Women Workers in Industry and Lois McDonald with interviewer Mary Frederickson. 6 November 1974
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Eugenia Rawls, white actress, and Donald Ray Seawell, white civic leader and theater producer, discuss women's role in 1930s theater, development of American regional theater, Seawell's association with the Council for the Arts, development of a performing arts complex in Denver, Colo., Tallulah Bankhead, Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, the Theater Guild, difficulty of breaking into production as a new playwright, British theater, Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna, Rawls's background, Carolina Playmakers in the late 1920s and early 1930s, Lillian Hellman, portrayal of the South in American theater, Strange Fruit and Lillian Smith, Rawls's sense of being a southern actress, and working with universities with interviewer Elizabeth Buford. 7 April 1974
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Polly Hayden Robkin, white textile worker, discusses her southern, religious background, connections to the YWCA, first awareness of race, attending the Southern Summer School in 1930, attending night school, working as a union organizer, impact of the School on her career, and Louise MacLaren with interviewer Mary Frederickson. 2 November 1974
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Grace Hemphill Rogers, white political activist, discusses her father, Robert Reid Hemphill's family background, interest in equal rights for women, and participation in women's rights conventions and state politics, the Hemphill family, her sister Hannah Coleman's family and political involvement, her own involvement in Abbeville, S.C., politics including serving on the city council and writing a column for the Anderson Independent, her interest in social issues and philosophy on social classes, the Civic Club of Abbeville, and the background of prominent families there with interviewer Constance Ashton Myers. 12 June1974
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Eulalie Salley, white suffragist, discusses the diminishing relevance of the League of Women Voters after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, role of suffragists in South Carolina's political system prior to 1920, Lola Trax speaking before the state legislature, negative impact of Trax on the South Carolina suffragists, disapproval of suffragists' alliance with the Temperance Movement, launching a real estate business, balance of work and life, childcare, and Jeannette Rankin with interviewer Constance Ashton Myers. 15 September 1973
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Elizabeth Seaman, white artist and author, discusses her childhood in Chicago, her artistic training, her first marriage to an artist and early married life in Augusta, Ky., moving to New York City and the impact of the Depression, Diego Rivera's murals and political beliefs, the influence of Scott Neering, moving to Chicago, her divorce and remarriage to a writer, her move to Tumbling Creek, Tenn., and the reasoning behind it, the suspicion and hostility of neighbors during wartime, the FBI investigation into her radicalism, the establishment of a "cabin library," relationships with mountain people, challenges such as the deterioration of her vision, sacrifices for her husband's work, poverty, work as a governess in Cincinnati, Ohio, publication of her children's book and Arms of the Mountains, and radical associates with interviewer Mimi Conway. 19 February 1976
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Modjeska Simkins, African American political activist, discusses her family background and childhood, attending Benedict College in Columbia, S.C., for elementary, secondary, and collegiate education, her lack of "color consciousness," her involvement with the South Carolina Interracial Commission, the NAACP, the Southern Negro Youth Conference, and the Interracial Commission during the 1920s through the 1940s, work confronting segregation and lynching, women in leadership position in the social justice movements during the 1920s, efforts to differentiate between the unique capabilities that southern social hierarchies afforded African American women and white women, and anecdotes regarding racial tensions with interviewer Jacquelyn Dowd Hall. 15 November 1974
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Modjeska Simkins, African American political activist, with interviewer Jacquelyn Dowd Hall. 28 July 1976
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Hilda Worthington Smith, white school administrator, discusses Bryn Mawr, a picnic with Eleanor Roosevelt, women workers' education programs, black and white student relations, Southern Summer School, and evolution of workers' education programs with interviewer Marion W. Roydhouse. 11 March 1975
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Thelma Stevens, white advocate for social justice and program coordinator, discusses he formative years in Mississippi, career as a teacher, YWCA, racial tensions in Hattiesburg, Miss., Scarritt College, Women's Division of the Methodist Church, the Bethlehem Center a community center for African Americans in Augusta, Ga., Jim Crow segregation, relationship of radical politics and social justice movements of the 1930s, Jessie Daniel Ames, Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching, and her efforts to promote interaction between white and black women in the North and the South with interviewer Jacquelyn Dowd Hall. 13 February 1972.
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Olive M. Stone, white sociologist, discusses southern family background and contact with African Americans with interviewer Sherna Berger Gluck. 6 March 1975
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Olive M. Stone, white sociologist, discusses education at Huntingdon College and University of Chicago School of Social Services, YWCA training, YWCA job in Houston, Tex., work with children, breakdown of southern mind-set, and training child welfare workers with interviewer Sherna Berger Gluck. 28 May 1975
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Olive M. Stone, white sociologist, discusses her faculty position at Alabama College, State College for Women (University of Montevallo), work as Dean of Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Ala., trip to Scandinavia and Russia, Alabama sharecroppers' massacre, her support of the sharecroppers' organization, Fellowship of Reconciliation, her study of the Gandhi approach to change, School on Wheels, and encouraging collective action in Michigan farmers' communities with interviewer Sherna Berger Gluck. 27 June 1975
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Olive M. Stone, white sociologist, discusses work as Dean of Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Ala., graduate work at the University of North Carolina, being an unmarried professional woman, visit from Myra Callis of Tuskegee Institute, Jim Crow segregation, her involvement in radical politics, advocacy for the rights of farmers and sharecroppers, the Highlander Folk School, decision to leave Huntingdon College, conferences at Swarthmore College and Blue Ridge, and the Committee for People's Rights with interviewer Sherna Berger Gluck. 13 August 1975
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Olive M. Stone, white sociologist, discusses graduate work at the University of North Carolina, the Southern Committee for People's Rights, merging of Joseph Gelder's National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners with the Southern Committee for People's Rights, and sociologist Howard Odum with interviewer Sherna Berger Gluck. 10 September 1975
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Olive M. Stone, white sociologist, discusses her research on Alabama farmers, the Southern Committee for People's Rights, Joseph Gelders, Southern Conference for Human Welfare, liberalism and liberal causes including anti poll tax and anti-lynching, and Lucy Randolph Mason with interviewer Sherna Berger Gluck. 14 October 1975
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Olive M. Stone, white sociologist, discusses her job with the Bureau of Public Assistance, a teaching position at Howard University, McCarthy investigation, the Hatch Act, loyalty oath, University of California Los Angeles, and the Veterans' Administration with interviewer Sherna Berger Gluck. 4 November 1975
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Olive M. Stone, white sociologist, discusses her nickname, the Highlander Folk School, an interracial meeting in Chattanooga. Tenn., in 1935. Lucy Randolph Mason, Sam Franklin and the Delta and Providence Farm Cooperative in Mississippi with interviewer Sherna Berger Gluck. 4 November 1975
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Adolphine Fletcher Terry, white political activist, discusses the Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching with interviewer. 1975
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Gladys Avery Tillett, white women's rights activist, teacher, and politician, discusses Women's College of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro during the early 1910s, the suffrage movement, tenure as student body president, League of Women Voters in Charlotte, N.C., North Carolina Democratic Party, Democratic National Convention in 1932, Women's Division of the Democratic National Committee, and Frank Porter Graham's run for the United States Senate in 1950 with interviewer Jacquelyn Dowd Hall. 20 March 1974
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Marguerite Tolbert, white teacher, discusses her education and background, her book South Carolina's Distinguished Women, her teaching career, colleagues Wil Lou Gray and Dr. D.B. Johnson, suffrage movement, and Jane Addams's visit to Winthrop College with interviewer Constance Ashton Myers. 14 June 1974
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Josephine Mathewson Wilkins, white civic leader, discusses the Georgia Children's Code Commission, child labor laws, League of Women's Voters, Rosenwald Foundation, Citizen's Fact Finding Movement, Southern Conference for Human Welfare, McCarthyism, friendship with Jessie Daniel Ames and Ames's anti-lynching organization, the Commission of Interracial Cooperation, and the Southern Regional Council with interviewer Jacquelyn Dowd Hall. 1972
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Ellen Black Winston, white politician, discusses her North Carolina childhood, attending Converse College in South Carolina in the 1920s, earning her doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1930, teaching social science in Raleigh, N.C., working for the Federal Emergency Relief Administration in Washington, D.C., working for the Works Progress Administration in Raleigh, N.C., teaching at Meredith College in Raleigh, N.C., involvement with the American Association of University Women, appointment to North Carolina Commissioner of Public Welfare, becoming the first United States Commissioner of Welfare in 1963, status of women and opportunities for professional women, philosophy of social welfare, and how to improve North Carolina's social welfare with interviewer Annette Smith. 2 December 1974
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Alice Norwood Spearman Wright, white political activist, discusses the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) and Louise Leonard McLaren with interviewer Jacquelyn Dowd Hall. 28 February 1976
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Alice Norwood Spearman Wright, white political activist, discusses women civil rights workers, women labor union members, and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) with interviewer Jacquelyn Dowd Hall. 8 August 1976
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Bonnie E. Cone, white college administrator, with interviewer Lu Ann Jones. 4 March 1980
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Leslie Duncan, white college administrator, discusses Charlotte College and later the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, appointment as Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs and Community Relations at UNC Charlotte, financial aid for college students, her being passed over for the chancellor position, Tech High School in Charlotte, N.C., and vocational training with interviewer Lu Ann Jones. 4 March 1980
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Sam Ragan, white journalist and newspaper editor, discusses southern politics in the 1930s and Nell Battle Lewis with interviewer Mitzi Long. 28 June 1984
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Florence Mars with interviewer Frank Adams. Undated
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Lorena Barnum Sabbs and Thelma Barnum, African American political activists, discuss the Barnum Funeral Home, a center of civil rights activity in Sumter County, Ga., status of African Americans in Americus, Ga., and Sumter County in the 1950s and 1960s, integration of Americus High School in the mid-1960s, and participation in civil rights protests with interviewer Tracy K'Meyer. 3 March 1991
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Elizabeth Laney, white librarian, discusses Mary Peacock Douglas, two publications by Douglas, The Teacher Librarian's Handbook and The Pupil Assistant, library science at Appalachian State University, school librarianship, and schools in Raleigh, N.C., with interviewer Budd Leslie Gambee. 21 March 1985
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Cathryn Freeman and Jean Johnson, white librarians, discuss Mary Peacock Douglas and school librarianship with interviewer Budd Leslie Gambee. 21 March 1985
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Jean Johnson, white librarian, discusses Mary Peacock Douglas and school librarianship with interviewer Budd Leslie Gambee. 27 March 1985
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Included in this series are interviews with women who attended medical school during the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. Interviewees discuss medical training, perceptions of themselves as minority students and professionals, and patients' and male colleagues' perceptions of and reactions to women physicians. Also included are interviews that relate to black and white women involved in the civil rights movement in Atlanta, Ga., between the 1940s and 1990s. Interviews for a project on North Carolina women's leadership and grassroots activism explore the experiences of notable women leaders. The project seeks to redefine leadership to encompass women's efforts in grassroots movements, especially in environmental movements, community development, and self-help organizations. Included are five interviews conducted in the late 1990s by Holloway Sparks with three lesbian activists living and working in North Carolina. Twenty-five interviews conducted by Alicia Rouverol are with Native American women leaders and leaders of grassroots organizations. Interviews conducted by Barbara Allen are with women who grew up on tenant farms and worked during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s at the Jerold Plant in Smithfield, Johnston County, N.C. An interview with Kay Yow, women's basketball coach at North Carolina State University is also included.
Click here for the online, sortable list of oral history interviews in this series. Each interview is cataloged in the interview database with descriptive information about the interviewee and the contents of the interview. Transcriptions and audio recordings for many of the unrestricted interviews are available in this online database.
Included in this series are interviews with women who attended medical school during the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. Interviewees discuss medical training, perceptions of themselves as minority students and professionals, and patients' and male colleagues' perceptions of and reactions to women physicians.
ONLINE INTERVIEW DATABASE
Click here for the online, sortable list of oral history interviews in this series. Each interview is cataloged in the interview database with descriptive information about the interviewee and the contents of the interview. Transcriptions and audio recordings for many of the unrestricted interviews are available in this online database.
Louise Young, white teacher, discusses her childhood, graduating from Vanderbilt University intending to be a teacher, working towards graduate degrees on fellowship at the University of Wisconsin and Bryn Mawr College, realizing her own lack of racial awareness and determining to better understand and to combat racial injustice, the impact of her Methodist upbringing on her values and beliefs, teaching on faculty at Paine College, an African American school in Augusta, Ga., working as part of a predominantly African American faculty, working as Dean of Women at the historically black Hampton Institute in Virginia, where the faculty dynamic was different because of the role of white educators from the North, working as director of the Department of Home Missions at Scarritt College for Christian Workers in Nashville, Tenn., facilitating race relations between students at Scarritt College and Fisk University, role of women's church groups, Home Mission Department's advocacy of integration, YWCA, Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching, labor activism in the 1930s and 1940s, Highlander Folk School, and themes of social justice related to race, gender, and class with interviewer Jacquelyn Dowd Hall. 14 February 1972
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Isabel Bittinger with interviewer Sara Fowler. 29 October 1974
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Elizabeth Conrad, physician, discusses her decision to become a doctor like her father, attending medical school, her belief that women faced discrimination as undergraduates and in medical specializations, but not in medical school, gender dynamics of the medical field, encouragement men received to become doctors while women were encouraged to become nurses or technicians, impact of family life on a woman's decision to enter the medical field, and belittlement of young girls who excel intellectually and who are interested in the medical field with interviewer Sara Fowler. 24 October 1974
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Susan Dees with interviewer Sara Fowler. 24 October 1974
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Ruth N. Henley with interviewer Sara Fowler. 29 October 1974
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Roletta Jolly-Fritz with interviewer Sara Fowler. 28 October 1974
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Jean McAlister with interviewer Sara Fowler. 28 October 1974
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Dorothy Naumann with interviewer Sara Fowler. 14 November 1974
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Seven interviews conducted by Kathryn L. Nasstrom for her dissertation, "Women, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Politics of Historical Memory in Atlanta, 1946-1973" (UNC Chapel Hill, 1993) The six African American women and one white woman interviewed were involved in various phases of the civil rights movement in Atlanta, Ga. Interviewees discuss their civic and political work and Atlanta's social and political climate during the mid-twentieth century.
ONLINE INTERVIEW DATABASE
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Sujette Crank, African American agency director, discusses her childhood, Morris Brown College in Atlanta, Ga., attending Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., and black collegiate life there, Alpha Kappa Alpha and its activities, teaching at Booker T. Washington High School in Atlanta, Ga., Jane Boyd, a community house in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, working at and segregation in the Chicago YWCA, competition between the AFL and the CIO in the Chicago YWCA, Metropolitan Education Group, the Phyllis Wheatley YWCA in Atlanta, Ga., Mamie Kennedy Taylor's role in the Atlanta YWCA, struggling to promote desegregation at the YWCA, Helen Waderweslein, serving as executive director of the Phyllis Wheatley YWCA, Dr. Harry B. Richardson, differences between the YWCA and the YMCA, Harvest Teas at the YWCA, her role in Economic Opportunity Atlanta (EOA), Robert Thompson, Frankie Adams, poverty, Calvin F. Craig and the Ku Klux Klan, Model Cities Program, politics within Atlanta's black community, John Calhoun, mass conventions of the 1960s, Q.V. Williamson, the 1965 riots, Ivan Allen, Jr., the Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, Deacon Peters, Edward Moody, Mattie Ansley, and Ethel Matthews with interviewer Kathryn L. Nasstrom. 12 April 1993
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Pearlie Dove, African American college professor, discusses her childhood and educational background, career as an educator, Dr. A.A. MacPheeters, Dr. Reese Hughes, National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE), Association of Student Teachers, American Association of Colleges, Booker T. Washington High School in Atlanta, Ga., graduate school at Atlanta University and the University of Chicago, teaching at Clark College (now Clark Atlanta University) and its changing student body, impact of the civil rights movement and integration on career choices of African American students, Dr. Henderson's leadership as president of Clark College, new programs made possible by government funding and their impact, cultural opportunities for African Americans in Atlanta during segregation, integration in Atlanta and her thoughts on its successes and failures, the Sibley Commission hearings, her role placing African American student teachers in predominantly white schools, preparing students for multiculturalism in the 1960s and 1970s, the Southern Student Teacher Program, Clark College's Department of Education and its philosophy, teachers as leaders in the black community, Dr. C.L. Harper, the NAACP, teachers' equalization suit in the 1940s, the YWCA, American Federation of Teachers, Irene Harries, the Phyllis Wheatley YWCA, "Noon Day Lunch" (later the Hungry Club), black politicians in the 1970s, Ruby Blackburn, and the League of Negro Women Voters with interviewer Kathryn L. Nasstrom. 9 April 1992
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Narvie Harris, African American teacher, discusses her childhood and educational background, Robert L. Cousins, integration of the Atlanta police force, working in black schools and the educational and social work aspects, organizing PTA Council in DeKalb County, Ga., networking with whites, Frances Pauley, Eleanor Richardson, Head Start, beginning to work with white schools, Jim Cherry, Henry Nelson, testifying before the DeKalb grand jury to receive supplies for black schools, Atlanta Urban League, C.L. Harper, serving as the Atlanta district president for DeKalb black PTA Council, the black PTA's publication Our Georgia Family, voter registration, science fairs, school integration, and the NAACP with interviewer Kathryn L. Nasstrom. 11 June 1992
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Annie L. McPheeters, African American librarian, discusses her decision to become a librarian, the adult education program of the black branch of Atlanta's public library in the 1930s, John Wesley Dobbs, providing information to political and civic organizations, Dr. C.A. Bacote, Rev. William Holmes Borders, Warren Cochrane, the library's providing space for voter league meetings, Ruby Blackburn and the League of Negro Women Voters, League of Women Voters (white), women's groups and voter education, the Hungry Club, Hallie Beecham Books, library integration, the Friends of the Library, Atlanta Council on Human Relations, Whitney Young, American Veterans (AMVETS), John C. Settelmayer, Mayor William B. Hartsfield, Freedom Rides, Julian Bond, the black history collection at the Auburn Ave. library, SNCC, Utopian Literary Club, school integration, her attitude toward political participation away from the library, Sibley Commission, Mrs. Mexico Mickleberry and Margaret Davis Bowen, role played by black libraries before integration, Metropolitan Atlanta Association for the Blind, Martin Luther King Jr. and Maynard Jackson as youths at the library, expanding the role of black women in the community, Nina King, Chautauqua Literary Club, Atlanta Life Insurance Company, the Atlanta Daily World, Atlanta Housing Authority, her reaction to feminism, and compiling newspaper indexes on issues and events of importance to Atlanta's blacks with interviewer Kathryn L. Nasstrom. 8 June 1992
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Nan Pendergrast, white civic and political volunteer, discusses her family background, the development of her social consciousness, attending Vassar College, the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot, lynching of Leo Frank, Ralph McGill, Barry Goldwater, meeting her future husband Britt Pendergrast and his background, pacifist reaction to World War II, Atlanta's American Friends Service Committee in the 1940s, YWCA and race issues, Dorothy Tilly, Josephine Wilkins, League of Women Voters, the Republican Party, Jewish women and the League of Women Voters, Bea Haas, Josephine Heyman, Rebecca Gershon, Judge Elbert Tuttle, state Republican Party and integration, Mayor John Calhoun, the Atlanta Daily World, Dean Josephine Murphy of Atlanta University, Council on Human Relations, lack of relationship between Atlanta's blacks and whites, Whitney Young, mid-1940s voter registration drive, Morris Abram, Georgia Republican delegation's split in 1952, Judge Tuttle, Dwight Eisenhower, family's attitudes toward Franklin D. Roosevelt, Southern Bed Spring Company strike, integration, the Urban League, 1956 League of Women Voters integration crisis, George Goodwin, Atlanta's power structure, Help Our Public Education (HOPE), Sibley Commission hearings, Society of Friends' meeting house, Atlanta's business community, Helen Bullard, Ivan Allen, Mugsy Smith, Lester Maddox and restaurant integration, Partners for Progress, Richard Rich and Rich's department stores, Robert Coles and his work on black students during integration, Grace Hamilton and the Urban League, Sadie Mays, and Jesse Hill with interviewer Kathryn L. Nasstrom. 24 June 1992
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Alice Holmes Washington, African American teacher, discusses her childhood and family background, Alice Duggett Carrie, the first black librarian in Atlanta, Ga., National Association of Black Professional Nurses, YWCA, Donna Greene, teaching career in various parts of Georgia, South Fulton High School and its graduates' successes, PTA at South Fulton High School and its evolution, school integration, student protests, personal activism, Neighborhood Youth Corps and the War on Poverty, lawsuit to integrate Atlanta's golf courses, integration of the University of Georgia, and health services for students with interviewer Kathryn L. Nasstrom. 15 April 1993
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Lottie Watkins, African American civic leader, discusses her childhood and family background, Booker T. Washington High School in Atlanta, Ga., Reid Business School in Atlanta, Ga., the decision to establish her own property management business, Geneva Haugabrooks, the founder and owner of Haugabrooks Funeral Home, Butler Street YMCA and her service on its board of directors, the Hungry Club, Grace Hamilton, Eunice Cooper, the Urban League, student sit-in movement, Atlanta Summit Leadership Conference, West Hunter Library and its discussions on education, police brutality, All Citizens Registration Drive, NAACP, Freedom Fund Banquet, Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), comparisons of the YWCA and the YMCA, various political campaigns in the Democratic Party, Jimmy Carter's presidential race, interracial meeting of Democratic women for Lyndon Johnson in 1964, and Ella Mae Brayboy with interviewer Kathryn L. Nasstrom. 25 June 1992
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Begun in 1994, this project is one of six projects aimed at understanding how North Carolinians have dealt with the changes that have transformed the state since the Great Depression (other projects focus on University history; North Carolina politics; business history; broadcast media; and memory and community studies). These projects were launched with a gift from Walter Royal Davis that enabled the Southern Oral History Program and the Academic Affairs Library to establish the Davis Oral History Fund.
Interviews explore the experiences of notable women leaders. The project seeks to redefine leadership to encompass women's efforts in grassroots movements and organization, especially in environmental movements, community development, and self-help organizations.
Included are five interviews conducted in the late 1990s by Holloway Sparks with three lesbian activists living and working in North Carolina. Sparks, a doctoral student in the Department of Political Science at UNC Chapel Hill studied the dissident practices of activist women and the role of political courage in enabling activism and dissent.
Twenty-five interviews conducted by Alicia Rouverol are with Native American women leaders and leaders of grassroots organizations. Interviews conducted by Barbara Allen are with women who grew up on tenant farms and worked during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s at the Jerold Plant in Smithfield, Johnston County, N.C. An interview with Kay Yow, women's basketball coach at North Carolina State University is also included.
An interview by Pamela Grundy with Kay Yow, women's basketball coach at North Carolina State University is also included.
Many of the other interviews were conducted as a class assignment by undergraduate students in a class called Women in American History, which was taught by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the fall of 1994. Others were done by class members in an oral history class at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the spring of 1995.
ONLINE INTERVIEW DATABASE
Click here for the online, sortable list of oral history interviews in this series. Each interview is cataloged in the interview database with descriptive information about the interviewee and the contents of the interview. Transcriptions and audio recordings for many of the unrestricted interviews are available in this online database.
Annie Clarke Ager, white farmer, with interviewer Chelsea Hayden. 25 November 1994
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Annette Allen with interviewer Christina Bollo. 21 October 1994
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Carolyn Allen with interviewer Kathryn Hass. 12 October 1994
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Faith Ashton with interviewer Rebecca White. 29 October 1993
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Dorothy Cochrane Bernholz, white attorney, discusses her childhood, studying political science at the Women's College of the University of North Carolina, transferring to the University North Carolina, marrying a Jewish man during her senior year, sidetracking her plans to attend law school to support her husband's career, attending North Carolina Central University (NCCU) School of Law ten years after her husband, receiving her license to practice law in 1975, when only three percent of North Carolina's lawyers were women, work with the Ford Foundation and the North Carolina Fund in 1963, work for the Student Legal Services at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, sexism in the courtroom, the "good ole' boy network," and how women are changing the process and style of law with interviewer Stephanie Schmitt. 10 November 1994
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Lenore Binzer, business owner, discusses breaking free of the housewife mold, significance of getting an education, marriage to a military man, pride in her master's degree in Human Resource Management, gender discrimination in the workplace, her entrepreneurship, opening her store, and her definition of feminism with interviewer Donna Binzer. 20 November 1994
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Jane D. Brown, white professor and women's rights activist, with interviewer Judy Royal. 22 November 1994
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Jane Burke, school administrator, with interviewer Kelly Jackson. 22 November 1994
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Mary Ann Coffey, white attorney, with interviewer Kathryn Boyd. 19 November 1994
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Marie Watters Colton, white politician, with interviewer Suefan Wellons. 24 November 1994
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Mildred Council, African American business owner and author of cookbooks, with interviewer Donna Clark. 14 November 1994
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Carole L. Crumley, professor and scientist, with interviewer Dana Robinson. 29 November 1994
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Judy Driver, physician, with interviewer Blair Tiller. 30 November 1994
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Janice Edwards with interviewer Ashley Culbreth. 21 November 1994
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Jayne Ellicott, teacher, with interviewer Heidi Hendrix. 23 November 1994
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Sherrie Evans-Stanton, Jewish legislative aide, with interviewer Christine Bambao Jacinto. 21 November 1994
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Marie T. Farr, professor, with interviewer Judith Utley. 25 November 1994
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Gillian Floren, newspaper editor, with interviewer Wendy Mitchell. 1 November 1994
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Elizabeth Frasier, African American teacher and principal, with interviewer Robin Lennon. 9 and 16 November 1994
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Susan Gramling, with interviewer Siah S. Annand. 2 December 1994
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Luana Guess, health services administrator, with interviewer Beth Myron. 26 November 1994
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Lisa P. Gwyther, white social worker, with interviewer Leah Karin VanWey. 11 November 1994
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Zenobia Hatcher-Wilson, African American NGO director, with interviewer Tanya Anil Nadkarni. 28 November 1994
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Judy Hoffman, school administrator, with interviewer Kara Sheppard. 18 November 1994
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Eunice Holbert, religious leader, with interviewer Valerie Holbert. 28 November 1994
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Bertha Merrill Holt, white attorney, with interviewer Deana Ann Vernon. 25 November 1994
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Jennie Holt, social worker, with interviewer Alison Zachary. 22 and 23 November 1994
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Betty Hutton, program coordinator, with interviewer Megan Richardson. 29 November 1994
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Beth Isling, women's rights activist and NGO director, discusses the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League- North Carolina (NARAL-NC), her involvement in social and environmental justice, her role in forming the Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC) at James Madison University, importance of access to abortion services, the Women of Color Reproductive Freedom Initiative, and the needs of rural women with interviewer Natalie Mason-Fry. 10 November 1994
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Jackie Kane, teacher, with interviewer Shannon Biggs. 1994
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June Keener, business owner, with interviewer Beverly Kinlaw. 21 October 1994
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Suzanne Kuteh, school administrator, with interviewer Neha Kothadia. 3 December 1994
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Patricia Stanford Love, white judge, with interviewer Hayley Brady. 1994
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Kathleen Lord, business owner, with interviewer Rebecca Jones. 28 November 1994
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Soyini Madison, African American professor, discusses the differences between performance studies and drama, the differences between the North and the South, division of responsibilities in her middle-class childhood home, working in a women's prison in the 1920s, similarities and differences between women in prison and women who are free, impact of working in a prison on her teaching style, gender and race in American culture, impact and influence of her father on her beliefs, importance and decline of stories in modern life, and generational gaps in language with interviewer Eldora Dawn Prince. 1994
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Inez Makepeace with interviewer Mary Angell. 4 December 1994
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Laura McClean, musician, with interviewer Heather Betz. 26 November 1994
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Sally A. Migliore, NGO director, discusses National Society for Experiential Education (NSEE), Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA), adult literacy, community organizing with the North Carolina Commission for Indian Affairs, her work with North Carolina State Government Internship Program, service learning, and family life and equal partnership with spouse with interviewer Arianne Fennelly. 22 November 1994
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Sandy Motley, health services administrator, with interviewer Stacie A. Stoner. 1 December 1994
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Mary Watson Nooe, politician, with interviewer Jennifer Chapman. 10 November 1994
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Barbara Price, religious leader, with interviewer Shannon D. Green. 3 December 1994
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Margaret Rathburn, child care worker, with interviewer Joy Ann Lewis. 26 November 1994
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Wyndham Robertson, white journalist, with interviewer Rachel Steinwender. 14 November 1994
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Carolyn Russell, legislator and speaker pro tempore-elect in the North Carolina General Assembly, discusses her political career, switching parties and becoming a Republican and chairperson of the GOP in Wayne County, N.C., the "good ol' boys" network in Raleigh, N.C., need for more women in elected office, bipartisan initiatives on behalf of families, stereotypes of Republicans, the Equal Rights Amendment, and the harm of taxation and federal funding with interviewer Barbara Duffy. 1994
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Carolyn Russell, state legislator of North Carolina, discusses her involvement in politics, motivation behind switching to the Republican Party in 1980, running for and being elected the first woman chair of the GOP in Wayne County, N.C., belief that she did not encounter sexist obstacles in running, women's risk of not being taken seriously, the need for voters to elect more women in order to counter the "Good Ole Boys" network in Raleigh, N.C., her bipartisan, family-focused initiatives, balancing a career in politics with family, peer-mentoring other Republican candidates, how efforts invested in supporting the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) could have helped women in different ways, challenging the stereotype of Republicans as "bible beaters," desire to see state sovereignty reestablished, and her views that taxation and federal funding are harmful with interviewer Barbara Duffy. 1994
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Shirley Shepard, African American program coordinator, with interviewer Nikki James. 25 November 1994
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Jeanette Stokes, religious leader, with interviewer Anne C. Duchesneau. 30 November 1994
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Marjorie Strawn, white physician, with interviewer Stephanie Greer. 18 November 1994
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Barbara Trent, white motion picture producer and director, with interviewer Camilla Hamer. 15 November 1994
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Viola Titus, social worker with interviewer Mary Carla Wade. 22 November 1994
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Ann Tyndall with interviewer Kendra Gemma. 30 November 1994
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Diane Vaught, volunteer, with interviewer Denise Carroll. 15 November 1994
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Sue Forbes Watson, white school administrator, discusses attending Duke University in the 1960s and the opportunities for her there that were not available at other schools, YWCA and its impact on her beliefs, need for a women's movement, working as the first woman and the only educator on the Hanover County School Board, exposure to liberal ideals through leadership at her church, leadership style, and reverse discrimination in community organizing with interviewer Susan B. Watson. 25 November 1994
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Donna-Maria Williams, African American program coordinator, with interviewer Kiely Flanigan. 22 November 1994
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Elizabeth Yarborough with interviewer Mary Angell. 4 December 1994
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Louisa Ringo, white teacher, with interviewer Constance Mann. 12 November 1994
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Margaret Nygard, white scientist, with interviewer Catherine Ward. 17 November 1994
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Jereann King, African American program coordinator, discusses her childhood and the people who influenced her, Alice Jackson, Hattie King, Willie Mae Jones, work at Literacy South and her role, importance of community organizing, her idea of what a leader is, impact of her race and gender on her life, how women have not yet achieved equality, development of equal relationships and policy changes as two ways to help women gain equality and combat sexual harassment, what she see as the major problems facing African American women, view of the United States as a violent society, and the imprisonment of young black men with interviewer Shuronia Pflueger. 28 November 1994
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Nora M. Brooks, teacher, discusses her childhood and family background, her spiritual beliefs and sense of faith, attending the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, working as a substitute teacher and a correctional officer in juvenile detention, working at Sun Valley High School in Monroe, N.C., her teaching style, struggles associated with being the oldest person in her department, and students' perceptions of her in both school and church with interviewer Sharon Y. Moore. 26 November 1994
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Margaret H. Kluttz, mayor of Salisbury, N.C., discusses her southern childhood and family background, her study of speech and hearing pathology at Greensboro College, her husband George and move to Salisbury, N.C., benefits of the non-partisan, at-large elections of Salisbury, diversity of the city council, the historical preservation movement, gender roles in her community, negative reactions to a billboard initiative she supported in the city, Greensboro sit-in movement, and the excitement she feels about her vision for the community with interviewer Betsy J. Collett. 2 December 1994
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Monica Darice McLeod, student, with interviewer Chariss S. Sanders. 29 November 1994
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Miriam Slifkin, women's rights activist, scientist, and merchant, with interviewer Emily W. Madison. 17 October 1994 and 16 and 30 November 1994
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Margaret G. A. Alexander, African American secretary, with interviewer William Jones. 17 March 1995
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Catherine A Baker, white student, with interviewer Kari E. Wimbish. 7 April 1995
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Ellen Baker, white environmental activist, with interviewer Emily M. Townsend. 13 March 1995
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Armide Bien-Amie, Haitian American student, with interviewer Kari E. Wimbish. 7 April 1995
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Julia Borbely-Brown, child care worker, with interviewer Natalie Marie Fousekis. 13 April 1995
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Rekha Chaudrabose, Asian American woman, with interviewer Elizabeth Maybach. 10 March 1995
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Louise Cole, white scientist, discusses her mother's leadership in the family, conversion to Mormonism at the age of seventeen, attending Brigham Young University during the mid-1960s, involvement with the Mormon community in Chapel Hill, work with the Environmental Protection Agency, multi-cultural curriculum and sex education in the local schools, formation of Putting Children First, which was a group concerned with curriculum they deemed inappropriate for minors, and her preparation for election to the school board with interviewer Priscilla Coit. 16 March 1995
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"Cynthia Rylander Crossen, white musician, with interviewer Kelly Pattison. 15 March 1995 Cynthia Rylander Crossen, white musician, with interviewer Kelly Pattison. 15 March 1995"
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Deborah Ferruccio, white NGO director, with interviewer Emily M. Townsend. 5 April 1995
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Mary Garber, white journalist, with interviewer Bradley Jay Hamm. 31 March 1995
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Juanita Gonzales, public officer, with interviewer Priscilla Coit Murphy. 29 March 1995
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Dorothy Graham, NGO director, with interviewer Natalie Marie Fousekis. 23 March 1995 and 20 April 1995
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Rachel Green, African American religious leader, with interviewer Alexander T. Bowers. 19 April 1995
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Jane T. Gurry, white religious leader, discusses her childhood in a small Mississippi town where church, home, and school were central, the Methodist church she attended there, matriculation at the University of Mississippi where Joe Elmore and Will Campbell served as inspirations, her move to Charlotte, N.C., involvement with the Myers Park Methodist Church, gender roles in her family, matriculation at Duke Divinity School, St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Raleigh where she served as a minister, challenges faced by a female minister, and the church as a place for revolutionary change with interviewer Micah D. Asby. 7 March 1995
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Margaret F. Henderson, NGO director and women's rights activist, with interviewer Lynne K. Degitz. 29 March 1995
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Lynette Coles Jefferies, African American, creole, Native American secretary with interviewer Susan R Giles. 20 and 24 April 1995
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Vicky M. Jiggetts, African American journalist, with interviewer Bradley Jay Hamm. 20 April 1995
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Louise Kessel, Asian American, Jewish teacher, folklorist, and environmental activist, with interviewer Kelly Pattison. 22 March 1995
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Marjorie P. Lockwood, white community organizer and political activist, with interviewer Andrew Hempe. 7 April 1995
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Mary Lee. Moore, program coordinator, with interviewer Nicola Jones. 3 March 1995
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Anna Louise Reynolds Pagano, white religious leader, with interviewer Alexander T. Bowers 20 April 1995
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Rebecca D. Richardson, African American religious leader, with interviewer Micah D. Asby. 7 April 1995
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Linda Simmons-Henry, African American historian and librarian, with interviewer Elaine Davis. 4 April 1995
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Ada Ford Singleton, African American business owner and political activist, with interviewer William Jones. 4 March 1995
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Miriam Slifkin, women's rights activist and scientist with interviewer Lynne K. Degitz. 24 March 1995
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Janie Taborn-Graves, African American teacher, with interviewer Hasan Kwame Jeffries. 12 March 1995 and 20 April 1995
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Gloria M. Williams, NGO director, with interviewer Rachel Winters. 21 March 1995
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Ella Arrington Williams-Vinson, African American teacher, with interviewer Elaine Davis. 2 and 9 March 1995
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Willie Mae Winfield, African American teacher, with interviewer William Jones. 5 March 1995
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Jaynibeth Goodwin, fire fighter, with interviewer Charles Franklin Thomas. 26 March 1995
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Mary Blevins Seelbinder, white fire fighter, with interviewer Charles Franklin Thomas. 5 February 1995
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Bertie Howard, African American NGO director, with interviewer William Jones. 26 June 1996
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Helen Matthews Lewis, white NGO director, with interviewer William Jones. 17 May 1996
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M'Liss G. Dorrance, dance teacher, discusses her childhood in Lisbon, Portugal, and Ethiopia and the impact of those cultures on her understanding of inter-gender relations, lifelong interest in dance, National Ballet of Washington, D.C., American Ballet Theater in New York City, her faculty position at Duke University starting in 1975, roadblocks she faced as a woman setting up her own business, religious upbringing, what she expects of the modern woman, and impact of having children on a domestic relationship with interviewer Dawn M. Crow. 10 November 1994
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Svea Oster, midwife and teacher, with interviewer Chris Gioia. 2 December 1994
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Anne Cates with interviewer Nancy Garrett. 28 November 1994
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Betty Hayes, white salesperson, with interviewer Elizabeth Barnhardt. 25 November 1994
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Isabella Cannon, white political activist and politician, with interviewer Jim Clark. 1993
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Carol Simmons Brewington, Native American community organizer, with interviewer Jill Hemming. 7 October 1996
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Sarah Brownlee Bryant, white, community organizer, with interviewer D'Etta Leach. 30 August 1995
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Mary Thomas Burke, white professor, with interviewer D'Etta Leach. 27 November 1996
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Dollie B. Burwell, African American public officer, with interviewer Melynn Glusman. 19 April 1995
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Dollie B. Burwell, African American public officer, and Kimberly Charmain Burwell, African American community organizer with interviewer Melynn Glusman. 19 April 1995
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Alexis Danzig, volunteer and women's rights activist, with interviewer William Jones. 25 April 1996
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Rosanell Eaton, women's rights activist, with interviewer Melynn Glusman. 10 June 1995 and 26 April 1996
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Shirley Jacobs Freeman, Native American business owner, with interviewer Jill Hemming. 28 August 1996
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Priscilla Jacobs Freeman, Native American chief, with interviewer Jill Hemming. 25 April 1994 and 7 October 1996
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Shirley Williams McClain, African American NGO director, with interviewer Elizabeth A. Millwood. 25 April 1996
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Jonnie H McLeod, white physician, with interviewer D'Etta Leach. 6 September 1995
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Brenda Jacobs Moore, Native American community organizer, with interviewer Jill Hemming. 26 September 1996
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Anne Parrish, African American information technology professional, with interviewer Michele Easter. 5 November 1996
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Carla Shuford, white secretary, with interviewer Frances A. Weaver. 23 and 30 April 1996 and 7 May 1996
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Judy Nunn-Ellison Snipes, African American teacher, with interviewer Michele Easter. 17 and 24 October 1996
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Jean DeSaix, white teacher, with interviewer Laura Gendy. 14 and 22 November 1996
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Mandy Carter, African American community organizer, with interviewer Holloway Sparks. 3 October 1996
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Mandy Carter, African American community organizer, with interviewer Holloway Sparks. 22 November 1996
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Tyrell Haberkorn, white student, with interviewer Holloway Sparks. 8 May 1997
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Tyrell Haberkorn, white student, with interviewer Holloway Sparks. 20 May 1998
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Mab Segrest, white political activist and communists, with interviewer Holloway Sparks. 6 August 1997
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Cheryl Amana, African American attorney, with interviewer Natalie Marie Fousekis. 16 October 1995
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Cheryl Amana, African American attorney, with interviewer Natalie Marie Fousekis. 18 December 1995
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Anonymous interviewee with interviewer Sherry Honeycutt. 7 November 1996
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Anonymous interviewee with interviewer Sherry Honeycutt. 3 December 1996
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Manlin Chee, Asian American attorney, with interviewer Barbara A. Lau. 3 July 1997
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Patricia Long, white accountant, with interviewer Sherry Honeycutt. 14 November 1996
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Lucie White, white attorney and professor, with interviewer Natalie Marie Fousekis. 13 September 1996
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Karen Amspacher, white NGO director, with interviewer Alicia J. Rouverol. 25 April 1995
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Betty Bailey, white NGO director, with interviewer Alicia J. Rouverol. 9 January 1997
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Betty Bailey, white NGO director, with interviewer Alicia J. Rouverol. 22 May 1997
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Betty Bailey, white NGO director, with interviewer Alicia J. Rouverol. 2 October 1997
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Ann Braddy, white factory worker, with interviewer Alicia J. Rouverol. 2 May 1997
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Betty Bailey, Stanley Len, and Thad Moore with interviewer Alicia J. Rouverol. 6 January 1995
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E'Vonne Coleman, African American executive, with interviewer Alicia J. Rouverol. 10 May 1996
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Mary Clouse, white NGO director, with interviewer Alicia J. Rouverol. 26 April 1995
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Mary Clouse, white NGO director, with interviewer Alicia J. Rouverol. 1 May 1995
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Mary Clouse, white NGO director, with interviewer Alicia J. Rouverol. 12 July 1995
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Joyce Dugan, Cherokee Indian chief, with interviewer Alicia J. Rouverol. 29 May 1996
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Joyce Dugan, Cherokee Indian chief, with interviewer Alicia J. Rouverol. 17 January 1997
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Joyce Dugan, Cherokee Indian chief, with interviewer Alicia J. Rouverol. 26 February 1998
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Betty DuPree, Native American business owner, with interviewer Alicia J. Rouverol. 16 March 1996
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Betty DuPree, Native American business owner, with interviewer Alicia J. Rouverol. 28 May 1996
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Claudia Horwitz, white women's rights activist, with interviewer Alicia J. Rouverol. 28 January 1997
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Alice Kenan, white NGO director, with interviewer Alicia J. Rouverol. 26 March 1996
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Louise Maney, Cherokee Indian artisan, with interviewer Alicia J. Rouverol. 29 May 1996
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Lena S. Ritter, white factory worker, with interviewer Alicia J. Rouverol. 24 April 1995
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Lena S. Ritter, white factory worker, with interviewer Alicia J. Rouverol. 7 May 1995
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Julia Scatliff, white NGO director, with interviewer Alicia J. Rouverol. 26 March 1996
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Bernice Sessoms, African American NGO director, with interviewer Alicia J. Rouverol. 20 April 1995
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Len Stanley with interviewer Alicia J. Rouverol. 18 April 1995
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Rosa Sutton, African American woman, with interviewer Alicia J. Rouverol. 3 May 1995
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Lola Williams. African American labor leader, with interviewer Alicia J. Rouverol. 20 April 1995
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Kay Yow, white basketball coach, with interviewer Pamela Grundy. 22 June 2005
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Valeria Lynch Lee with interviewer Natalie Marie Fousekis. 5 November 1997
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Dollie B. Burwell, African American public officer, with interviewer Temma Kaplan. 26 January 1993
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Dollie B. Burwell, African American public officer, with interviewer Temma Kaplan. 30 September 1994
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Dollie B. Burwell, African American public officer, with interviewer Temma Kaplan. 12 February 1995
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Dollie B. Burwell, African American public officer, with interviewer Temma Kaplan. 2 October 1995
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Dollie B. Burwell, African American public officer, with interviewer Temma Kaplan. 5 October 1995
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Dollie B. Burwell, African American public officer, and Kimberley Charmain Burwell, African American community organizer, with interviewer Temma Kaplan. 1 October 1994
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Dollie B. Burwell, African American public officer, and Kimberley Charmain Burwell, African American community organizer, with interviewer Temma Kaplan. 1 November 1995
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Two interviews relating to women who worked at the Jerold Plant, a sewing plant set up in 1954 in Smithfield, N.C., by the Jerold Corporation. The plant produced high quality garments. Interviewees recount their experiences growing up in tenant farming families in Johnston County, N.C., and working as sewers and supervisors in the Jerold Plant from the 1950s until it closed in the early 1980s. The interviews were conducted by Barbara Allen.
ONLINE INTERVIEW DATABASE
Click here for the online, sortable list of oral history interviews in this series. Each interview is cataloged in the interview database with descriptive information about the interviewee and the contents of the interview. Transcriptions and audio recordings for many of the unrestricted interviews are available in this online database.
Annie Belle Barbour, white textile worker and farmer, discusses her childhood and family life in Johnston County, N.C., tenant farming, the Jerold plant in Smithfield, N.C., supervisory responsibilities at the plant, dissatisfaction of women workers, white workers' responses to introduction of African American employees, perceptions of the boss Mr. Isley, and church work at the Four Oaks Baptist Church with interviewer Barbara C. Allen. 9 July 2007
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Bessie Stephenson Johnson, white factory worker and farmer, discusses her childhood and family life in Johnston County, N.C., her parents' values, tenant farming, work as a sewing machine operator in the Jerold plant in Smithfield, N.C., impressions of the plant manager Mr. Isley, wages, favoritism, attempts at unionization, African American workers, and church life with interviewer Barbara C. Allen. 11 July 2007
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Interviews, conducted between 1979 and 1981 by Emily Herring Wilson, for her book Hope and Dignity: Older Black Women of the South. Overall, Wilson interviewed more than forty older black women in North Carolina and selected twenty-seven for inclusion in the publication. The interviewees include gospel singers, midwives, teachers, ministers, college professors, civil rights organizers, artists, and musicians.
ONLINE INTERVIEW DATABASE
Click here for the online, sortable list of oral history interviews in this series. Each interview is cataloged in the interview database with descriptive information about the interviewee and the contents of the interview. Transcriptions and audio recordings for many of the unrestricted interviews are available in this online database.
Etta Baker, African American textile worker and musician, with interviewer Emily Herring Wilson. 1979
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Viola Barnett, African American woman, with interviewer Emily Herring Wilson. Undated
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Annie Jones Burke, Alice Jones Nickens, and Sally Jones Jones, African American women, with interviewer Emily Herring Wilson. 13 March 1980
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Annie Jones Burke, Alice Jones Nickens, and Sally Jones Jones, African American women, with interviewer Emily Herring Wilson. 8 May 1980
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Beatrice Garrett Burnett, African American teacher, with interviewer Emily Herring Wilson. February 1980
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Elizabeth Chavis, African American woman, with interviewer Emily Herring Wilson. 29 February 1980
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Nelle Coley, African American woman, with interviewer Emily Herring Wilson. Undated
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Eliza Dudley, African American woman, with interviewer Emily Herring Wilson. Undated
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Sophia East, African American woman, with interviewer Emily Herring Wilson. Undated
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Helen Edmonds, African American historian and civic leader, with interviewer Emily Herring Wilson. Undated
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Mary Eldridge, African American woman, with interviewer Emily Herring Wilson. Undated
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Minnie Jones Evans, African American artist, with interviewer Emily Herring Wilson. 16 April 1979
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Minnie Jones Evans, African American artist, with interviewer Emily Herring Wilson. 14 November 1979
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Gatha Horton Lassiter, African American community organizer, with interviewer Emily Herring Wilson. November 1979
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Viola Lenoir, African American woman, with interviewer Emily Herring Wilson. January 1980
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Betty Hill Lyons, African American farmer, with interviewer Emily Herring Wilson. 10 May 1979
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Betty Hill Lyons, African American farmer, with interviewer Emily Herring Wilson. 13 November 1979
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Lyda Moore Merrick and Madie Hall Xuma, African American women, with interviewer Emily Herring Wilson. 11 September 1979
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Mary Lawson Newby, African American woman, with interviewer Emily Herring Wilson. 12 February 1980
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Cora Reid Phillips, Elizabeth Moore Reid, and Fred Reid, African American musicians, with interviewer Emily Herring Wilson. 18 September 1979
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Elizabeth Moore Reid, African American musician, with interviewer Emily Herring Wilson. 1979
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Eva Hill Roundtree, African American gospel singer, with interviewer Emily Herring Wilson. 20 October 1980
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Eva Hill Roundtree and Mattie Shannon Smith African American singers, with interviewer Emily Herring Wilson. October 1979
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Ernestine Burghes Saunders, African American college professor, with interviewer Emily Herring Wilson. 13 January 1981
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Mattie Shannon Smith, African American singer, with interviewer Emily Herring Wilson. 1 October 1979
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Carrie McDonnell Stewart, African American midwife, with interviewer Emily Herring Wilson. 26 January 1980
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Anita Stroud, African American child care worker, with interviewer Emily Herring Wilson. Undated
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Madie Hall Xuma, African American teacher, with interviewer Emily Herring Wilson. 28 May 1980
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Mounted prints of Susan Mullally Clark's photographs that were used in an exhibit titled "Hope and Dignity." Images depict Emily Herring's interviewees.
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