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Interview no. | U-0533 |
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 | May 16 2011 |
Interviewee | Shugart, Nan, 1958- |
Interviewee occupation | Social workers |
Interviewee DOB | 1958 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Fink, Joey Ann. |
Abstract | Nan Shugart was in high school in Oak Ridge, Tenn., in the early 1970s. Her parents filed a complaint on her behalf under Title IX of the 1972 Education Amendment against the Oak Ridge High School to end girls’ half-court basketball. In college she continued to file complaints as the manager of the girls’ basketball team at Western Kentucky University. Although this interview was cut short due to a recording equipment malfunction, Shugart's interview contains many powerful reflections on being a female athlete in high school and college, a pathbreaker for young female athletes, and being a feminist in her teens and early 20s. Researchers will benefit from also listening to Dorothy Stulberg’s interview (also in this series). Stulberg represented Shugart and her parents, and throughout her career she fought gender and racial discrimination through the courts. This interview is part of the Southern Oral History Program's project to document the women's movement in the American South. |
Subject Name |
Western Kentucky University. University of Tennessee, Knoxville. |
Subject Geographic |
Maryville (Tenn.) Oak Ridge (Tenn.) Bowling Green (Ky.) Knoxville (Tenn.) |
Citation | Interview with Nan Shugart by Joey Fink, May 16 2011 U-0533, 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. | U0533_Audio |