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Interview no. | U-1010 |
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 | 25 July 2013 |
Interviewee | Webb-Bledsoe, Mayme. |
Interviewee occupation |
Administrators Community organizers Educators Program coordinators Social justice activists |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Brinson, Kearra. |
Abstract | Mayme Webb-Bledsoe is a native and current resident of Durham, North Carolina. Mayme is the senior neighborhood coordinator at Duke University for the Duke Office of Community Affairs, she is apart of the Pauli Murray Project Leadership team where her credentials include involvement with Southwest Central Durham Quality of Life Project, and she serves on the Durham Homeless Services Advisory Committee. Mayme completed her undergraduate education at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte from 1974-1974 and then went on to complete her graduate school education in Iowa. She moved away from Durham, NC and continued to live elsewhere for about 20 years until finally she was called back home as she began to recognize Durham's rich history and the importance of recognizing that history and its affiliation with contemporary issues. Topics include community activism in Durham; her relationship with her daughter and nephew; her involvement in the LGBTQ movement; her work at the Pauli Murray Project. 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 Mayme Webb-Bledsoe by Kearra Brinson, 25 July 2013 U-1010, 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. | U1010_Audio |