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Interview no. | U-0646 |
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 | 6 June 2009 |
Interviewee | Holt, Sibal S. |
Interviewee occupation |
Managers Executives Directors, labor unions |
Interviewee DOB | 1946 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Dixon, Otha Jennifer. |
Abstract | This interview focuses on the experiences of a the first black female president of the Louisiana American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) (first and only black female state president of AFL-CIO in the nation); personal background; education; employment at the Bell System; Communication Workers of America (CWA); racism; CWA convention; A. Philip Randolph Institute; civil rights and union; employment with AFL-CIO; assistant to the state president of AFL-CIO; lobbyist; Secretary Treasurer; Louisiana AFL-CIO president; general contractor; owner of a union company; women's movement; Equal Rights Advocates (ERA) campaign; state legislation; civil rights movement; President Barack Obama |
Citation | Interview with Sibal S. Holt by Otha Jennifer Dixon, 6 June 2009 U-0646, 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. | U0646_Audio |