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Interview no. | U-0636 |
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 | 31 May 2012 |
Interviewee | Ray, Sylvia. |
Interviewee occupation |
Women's rights activists Directors, NGOs and institutes |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | Unidentified |
Interviewer |
Vaughn, Paris. Leloudis, Kirsten. |
Abstract | Growing up in Duplin County, N.C.; father as country doctor, mother who was a homemaker; two years at Salem College; the Catherine Gibbs Secretarial School in New York City, N.Y.; employment at Elizabeth Arden; marriage; move to Atlanta, Ga.; roommates experiences with gender discrimination; move to North Carolina; introduction to the National Organization of Women; women's needs in Fayetteville, N.C.; grant proposal writing for Women's Center of Fayetteville; grant from Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation; volunteer coordination; organization development; change of name, from Women's Center of Fayetteville to the Center for Economic Empowerment and Development; fundraising letter campaign, Fayetteville Dancing with the Stars; role of men in women's movement; claiming the term “feminist”; advocacy for the Equal Rights Amendment and its failure in N.C. |
Citation | Interview with Sylvia Ray by Paris Vaughn and Kirsten Leloudis, 31 May 2012 U-0636, 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. | U0636_Audio |