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Interview no. | U-1048 |
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 2014 |
Interviewee | Black, Janet Ward. |
Interviewee occupation | Attorneys |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Foster, Margaret A. |
Abstract | Janet Ward Black is a native North Carolinian who was born in Kannapolis and now resides in Greensboro. She is the principle owner of Ward Black Law, one of the largest woman-owned law firms in the state. Ward Black has served as the president of the North Carolina Association of Trial Lawyers and the North Carolina Bar Association and as a board member of several legal associations throughout North Carolina; she has also been the recipient of numerous awards. Topics discussed: Miss Cabarrus County; Miss North Carolina; Miss America; Duke University Law School; beauty pageant stereotypes; the lack of women in law in the 1980s and 1990s; trial law; working for the District Attorney in Cabarrus County; domestic violence; starting a law firm; pro-bono work; philanthropy; Christianity; “4ALL”; Ask-A-Lawyer Day; poverty in North Carolina; homelessness; speaking for Girls’ State; drunk driving; gender parity in the work place; raising the wages of working women; the importance of women negotiating for salaries. This interview was conducted, to be deposited in the Southern Oral History Program’s archives, as part of the 2014 Moxie Project at UNC-Chapel Hill. |
Citation | Interview with Janet Ward Black by Margaret "Meg" A. Foster, 25 July 2014 U-1048, 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. | U1048_Audio |