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Interview no. | U-1049 |
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 | 28 September 2012 |
Interviewee | Bobo, Kimberley A. |
Interviewee occupation | Authors |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | Unidentified |
Interviewer | Gonzalez, Ivanna. |
Abstract | In this interview, Ms. Bobo discusses her childhood and early adult life experiences and how these experiences shaped her and informed her activism and work as an adult. Many of the stories in the interview connect her religious upbringing, her faith as an adult, and her activism and work in social and economic justice. She reflects on growing up in Cincinnati, Ohio, near the Kentucky border; being raised in the Church of Christ; attending college in Nashville, Tennessee, and New York (Barnard); getting involved in anti-hunger, living wage, and affordable housing activism in New York City; the role of women in the church; the Biblical arguments for economic, racial, and gender equality; and being a young woman in New York City in the 1970s. The interview had to be short because of Ms. Bobo’s time constraints, but it is rich in reflection and stories. This interview is part of the Southern Oral History Program’s project to document the women’s movement in the American South since the 1960s. |
Citation | Interview with Kimberley A. Bobo by Ivanna Gonzalez, 28 September 2012 U-1049, 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. | U1049_Audio |