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Interview no. | G-0078 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
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 | March 3, 1991 |
Interviewee |
Barnum, Thelma. Sabbs, Lorena Barnum. |
Interviewee occupation |
Political activists Political activists |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown; 1949 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | K'Meyer, Tracy Elaine. |
Abstract | Operators of the Barnum Funeral Home, a center of civil rights activity in Sumter County, GA, 1963-1968. The Barnum family has run the African American funeral parlor in Americus, GA for nearly 100 years, and has often taken leadership roles in the black community/ This interview begins with a description of the status of African Americans in Americus and Sumter County in the 1950s and 60s, the family's role in the town, and their philosophy about leadership. Sabbs discusses at length her experiences at the newly integrated Americus High School in the mid-60s, and her activities in the civil rights protests of 1963 and 1965. Other participants mentioned include Reverend Robert Freeman and J.R. Campbell, C.B. King, and Collins McGee. A smaller portion of the interview deals with Koinonia Farm and the relationship between it and the movement. |
Subject Topical |
Women civil rights workers--Georgia. African American civil rights workers--Georgia. African Americans--Georgia--Sumter City. |
Citation | Interview with Thelma Barnum and Lorena Barnum Sabbs by Tracy Elaine K'Meyer, 3 March 1991 G-0078, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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Interview no. | G0078_Audio |