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Interview no. | U-0637 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | U.16. Long Civil Rights Movement: The Women's Movement in the South |
Project description | Interviews, 2010 onward, that focus on women's activism and gender dynamics, which were central to the freedom movement and the backlash against it. Topics include reproductive activism, both anti-abortion and pro-choice; the emergence of second-wave feminism in the mountain South and its links to the civil rights movement; the War on Poverty and challenges to job discrimination inspired by Title VII; and the entry of women into the University of North Carolina. Interviews from Knoxville, Tenn., and surrounding areas focus on faith-based activism in Appalachia and its relation to feminism. |
Date | 11 June 2012 |
Interviewee | Renz, Constance Anne, 1950- |
Interviewee occupation |
Social workers Women's rights activists |
Interviewee DOB | 1950 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Tapia, Wendy. |
Abstract | Connie Renz 's education; parents’ beliefs about gender roles; involvement in political issues as a youth; experience at Duke University; experiences at the YWCA and the movement against Domestic Violence; experiences as the first Executive Director for the Orange/Durham Coalition for Battered Women in North Carolina; subsequent professions; working with children; initial involvement with UNC Horizons at the University of North Carolina Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology; patterns in women's substance abuse; overview of UNC Horizons program's services; stigma against women abuse substances; overview of services UNC Horizons provides for children of women in the program; overview of professional endeavors through social work. |
Citation | Interview with Connie Renz by Wendy Tapia, 11 June 2012 U-0637, 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. | U0637_Audio |