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Object Description
Interview no. | G-0033 |
Restrictions | Interview closed. |
Project | G.1. Southern Women: Individual Biographies |
Project description | Interviews, 1964-1991 (bulk 1970s), 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 and explore the interaction between the private lives and public activities of women representing various social classes and races. Interviewees include women involved in labor and workers' education movements; African American 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. |
Date | August 6, 1974 |
Interviewee | Lumpkin, Grace, 1892?-1980. |
Interviewee occupation | Unknown |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | Unidentified |
Interviewer | Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd. |
Abstract | Family background; early ancestors in Virginia; childhood in Georgia and South Carolina; education and early employment as a teacher; early involvement with YWCA and work in France after WWI; move to New York City to study creative writing; employment with Quaker organization on staff of The World Tomorrow; early involvement with social movements and labor struggles; acquaintance with Whittaker Chambers and Communist movement; arrest at demonstrations over Saco-Vanzetti case; gradual involvement with Communist party and meeting with future husband, Michael Intrator; life as a Communist supporter in 1920s; working for Communists in south in 1920s and 1930s; split in Communist party in 1929-30; gradual disenchantment with Communists; friendship with Whittaker Chambers and family; break with Communist party and growing estrangement from husband; discussion of Lumpkin's proletarian novels; assessment of To Make My Bread; relationship with sister, Katharine; testifying before the McCarthy committee; separation from husband and divorce; memories of the Southern Summer School in the 1930s; discussion of recent writings; leaving New York and moving to Virginia. |
Citation | Interview with Grace Lumpkin by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, 6 August 1974 G-0033, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Description
Interview no. | G-0033 |