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Interview no. | U-0476 |
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 | July 19 2009 |
Interviewee | Bell, Brenda. |
Interviewee occupation |
Educators Consultants Researchers Managers Women's rights activists |
Interviewee DOB | 1945 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Wilkerson, Jessie. |
Abstract | Brenda Bell grew up in Kentucky in the 1950s and 60s. Here she discusses memories of the Civil Rights Movement in Kentucky; relationship with family; feminism and the women’s movement in Nashville, Tenn.; participation in a consciousness-raising group; involvement in the Appalachian Volunteers; rural and working-class women’s issues in her social justice work; Women in Black and transnational women’s movements; involvement in adult education; working at the Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market, Tenn. This interview is part of the Southern Oral History Program’s project to document the women’s movement in the American South. |
Citation | Interview with Brenda Bell by Jessie Wilkerson, July 19 2009 U-0476, 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. | U0476_Audio |