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Interview no. | U-0645 |
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 | 5 June 2009 |
Interviewee | Giardina, Carol. |
Interviewee occupation |
Professors Women's rights activists Academics |
Interviewee DOB | 1946 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Wilkerson, Jessie. |
Abstract | Carol Giardna, a New York City, N.Y. native, teaches U.S. History and Women's Studies at Queens College in New York City. The interview focused primarily on her experiences organizing for the civil rights movement at the University of Florida; her early participation in civil rights and New Left protests, organizations like Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and other activities; her experiences as a young student who offered abortion referrals to other students; how the South shaped her understanding of and participation in the women's liberation movement; her relationship with activist Judith Brown and what lessons she taught Giardina about organizing; her participation in the founding of Gainesville Women's Liberation in Florida; and her reflections on the effects of the women's liberation movement in the 1960s on life today. Giardina discussed at length how she thinks the civil rights movement influenced the women's rights movement, and also her sadness that the founding members are not as active as they once had been. She also discussed her experiences in the South as a young woman following high school in New York and as an activist who is also an academic and her difficulties writing her thesis in the 1970s and writing a dissertation in the 1990s. |
Citation | Interview with Carol Giardina by Jessie Wilkerson, 5 June 2009 U-0645, 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. | U0645_Audio |