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Interview no. | G-0147 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | G.2.3. Southern Women: Special Focus: Women's Leadership and Grassroots Activism |
Project description | Interviews, 1993-1998, concentrating on the experiences of women leaders and attempting to redefine leadership to encompass women's efforts in grassroots movements, especially in environmental movements, community development, and self-help organizations. Many interviews were done by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill students; five were conducted by Holloway Sparks with three North Carolina lesbian activists for a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill dissertation on the role of political courage in enabling activism and dissent; and there is also one interview by Pam Grundy with North Carolina State University women's basketball coach Kay Yow. |
Date | 26 November 1994 |
Interviewee | Brooks, Nora M. |
Interviewee occupation | Teachers |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | Unidentified |
Interviewer | Moore, Sharon Y. |
Abstract | Nora Brooks is a teacher in Monroe, North Carolina. She was the youngest of four children and was raised in a Southern Baptist church. Her mother was a leader in the women's mission, and her father was a traveling salesman but was involved in the church when he could. Her young life was mostly centered on church, school, and athletics. She feels that she became more spiritually mature than socially mature because she realized that God was the center of her. She attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, graduating in 1982, and she still maintained a strong sense of faith even while she was away from home. After college she took a job as a substitute teacher, and later she was offered a position as a correctional officer in juvenile detention. She describes that experience, noting how difficult it was to deal with a side of society that was so different than where she came from. Brooks went back to school to get a teaching degree and was offered a job at Sun Valley High in Monroe, North Carolina, which she calls the biggest blessing of her life. Her teaching style was very story based, and she was a very personal teacher. She was the oldest person in her department, and she talked about the struggles associated with that. She ends the interview describing how she felt her students in school and church saw her. |
Citation | Interview with Nora M. Brooks by Sharon Y. Moore, 26 November 1994 G-0147, 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. | G0147_Audio |