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Interview no. | U-1060 |
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 | 30 July 2014 |
Interviewee | Shoemaker, Marion Lynn. |
Interviewee occupation |
Directors, NGOs and institutes Teachers |
Interviewee DOB | 1964 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Schumann, Cara. |
Abstract | Lynn Shoemaker is a resident of Wilmington, North Carolina. She is currently serving as the Executive Director of Tarheel Alliance of Classroom Teachers. She is also serving as a Board Member of Lillian’s List of North Carolina. TACT is a non-profit that aims to organize, engage and empower classroom teachers in North Carolina. Shoemaker grew up in a large family in Raleigh, North Carolina. She graduated from Peace College with a degree in English and Business Law. She then became certified in secondary education in English at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. She remained in Wilmington where she taught in the 1990’s for seven years before becoming the Field Director/Advocate for the North Carolina Association of Teachers. After leaving this position to parent her daughter, she later reentered the work and political world through a position on the North Carolina Council of women, wherein she was appointed by the governor to advise the North Carolina Legislature on issues that affect women in the state. In addition to this she has served on the Board of Lillian’s List of NC and founded TACT. This is where she currently serves as executive director. Topics Discussed: Mothers, Childhood, Young Marriage, Restaurants, Wilmington, North Carolina Legislature, North Carolina Politics, Teaching, Teachers, Teacher’s Unions, Advocates, Teacher Organizing, Disadvantaged Schools, Teen Mothers, Middle School, Non-Profits, Leadership, Young Women Leadership, Daughters, Motherhood, Lillian’s List of NC, Candidates, Education Reform, Political Reform, Dance, Raleigh, political polls, volunteerism, stay at home parenting, marriage, divorce, college, politicizing teachers, NCAE, TACT, and women in politics. This interview was conducted to be deposited into the Southern Oral History archives as part of the UNC-Chapel Hill 2014 Moxie Project. |
Citation | Interview with Marion Lynn Shoemaker by Cara Schumann, 30 July 2014 U-1060, 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. | U1060_Audio |