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Interview no. | U-0484 |
Restrictions | Closed until 19 May 2025. |
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 | May 19 2010 |
Interviewee | Graves, Bingham. |
Interviewee occupation |
Teachers Women's rights activists Directors, NGOs and institutes Researchers Consultants |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Wilkerson, Jessie. |
Abstract | First of two interviews. In this follow-up interview, Bingham Graves describes her community organizing work in the Fourth and Gill Neighborhood in Knoxville, Tennessee; working as a staff person at the Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market, TN; working for the Ford Foundation’s Southern Appalachian Leadership Training Program; the organizing philosophy at the Highlander Center; childcare and women’s issues at the Highlander Center; working for the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union; her participation in a consciousness-raising group; and how feminism related to her activism in the labor movement. 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 Bingham Graves by Jessie Wilkerson, 19 May 2010 U-0484, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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