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Interview no. | U-1008 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | U.16. Long Civil Rights Movement: The Women's Movement in the South |
Project description | Interviews, 2013 and onward, conducted as part of the Moxie Project women's leadership program for undergraduate students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill under the direction of Dr. Rachel Seidman. Student interviewers were interns at Triangle area women's organizations, and conducted interviews with women activists and leaders in the region as part of their service. The interviews are part of the Women's Movement in the South series, containing interviews recorded 2010 onward, that focus on women's activism and gender dynamics that 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. |
Date | 8 July 2013 |
Interviewee | Richardson, Amber N., 1989- |
Interviewee occupation |
Community organizers Students Social justice activists |
Interviewee DOB | 1989 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Native Americans |
Interviewer |
Brinson, Kearra. Phoenix, Ashe Danger. |
Abstract | Amber Richardson is a 23-year-old Durham resident who graduated from the School of Science and Math in 2008 and also graduated from Duke in 2012. Amber is a Native-American, queer native of Hollister, North Carolina, but was born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. In her hometown of Hollister, the Haliwa-Saponi Indian tribe lives as they openly and regularly practice cultural customs. Hollister is built around and operates through their ethnicity and their ethnic practices. Her tribe has over 4000 enrolled members and while they are recognized by the state of North Carolina, they do not have federal acknowledgement because of lack of resources. Amber was and continues to be an active member of her community in terms of cultural recognition and practice. She still dances at annual powwows which she has been doing since she was a child, she participated in a weekly culture class in her youth, she was president of the Duke Native American Student Alliance and was the representative of her tribe for the North Carolina Native American Youth Organization. Amber is currently uprooting herself and her life in Durham, NC to move to Washington D.C. with her current partner of two years. Topics discussed include her family's reaction to her sexuality; perceptions of lesbians in society; living in Durham, NC; her opinion of the identity “queer”; her experiences explaining her sexuality to other people. This interview was conducted, to be deposited in the Southern Oral History Program's archives, as part of the pilot summer of the Moxie Project at UNC-Chapel Hill as well as a public history project for the Pauli Murray Project. |
Citation | Interview with Amber N. Richardson by Kearra Brinson and Ashe Danger Phoenix, 8 July 2013 U-1008, 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. | U1008_Audio |