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Interview no. | U-0999 |
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 | 7 June 2013 |
Interviewee | McBane, Nannie. |
Interviewee occupation |
Labor leaders Social justice activists |
Interviewee DOB | 1935 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Griffon, Karon. |
Abstract | Nannie McBane is the coordinator of Uncle Eli’s Quilting Party which is held annually the first Thursday in April since 1931.This event is held in the old Eli Whitney School gym in rural southern Alamance County in the community of Eli Whitney. Nannie also retired with the University on North Carolina-Chapel Hill Student Health Services. Topics that were discussed include: growing up as the child of a tenant farmer; raising a family in the rural south in the 1960’s and 1970’s; jobs and job security for women in the 1950’s; working in Student Health Services; Uncle Eli’s Quilting Party its history and growth. This interview is part of History 292: Modern Women’s Activism in the American South through Oral history and Archives. It is also part of the research associated with Uncle Eli’s Quilting Party for the interviewer’s Senior Honors Thesis. |
Citation | Interview with Nannie McBane by Karon Griffin, 7 June 2013 U-0999, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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