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Interview no. | U-0505 |
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 26 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 her childhood; moving to Smithfield, NC; attending high school in Smithfield; racism in Smithfield; learning about the civil rights movement; learning about feminism and the women’s movement; attending the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in the 1970s; the English Department at UNC-CH; women’s issues on campus; campus activism; the Women’s Book Exchange; taking Jacquelyn Hall’s women’s history course as an undergraduate; the intersections of social justice movement. |
Citation | Interview with Melody Ivins by Stephanie Rytilahti, January 26 2011 U-0505, 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. | U0505_Audio |