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Interview no. | U-0504 |
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 | January 31 2011 |
Interviewee | Ivins, Melody, 1955- |
Interviewee occupation |
Managers Researchers Volunteers Directors, NGOs and institutes |
Interviewee DOB | 1955 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Rytilahti, Stephanie. |
Abstract | Melody Ivins discusses the formation and scope of multiple movements for social justice; Ivins’s involvement with the Women’s Peace Encampment in Savannah River, Georgia; The Women’s Book Exchange; Southern Sisters feminist bookstore; the different organizations and types of activism that took place in Chapel Hill and Durham; the importance of the Durham YWCA and other feminist spaces in the 1970s and 1980s; the relationship between community activism and universities; feminist consciousness-raising in the classroom at the University of North Carolina in the late 1970s; the Triangle Area Lesbian Feminists; lesbian separatism at The Southern Women’s Music Festival; radical feminism and cultural feminism; gay and straight women forming coalitional politics; the presence of 1960s movements for justice in the present. |
Citation | Interview with Melody Ivins by Stephanie Rytilahti, January 31 2011 U-0504, 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. | U0504_Audio |