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Interview no. | U-0549 |
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 17 2011 |
Interviewee | Tompkins, Forrest, G., 1930- |
Interviewee occupation | Physicians |
Interviewee DOB | 1930 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Wilkerson, Jessie. |
Abstract | Dr. Forrest Tompkins was born on October 2, 1930 in Irvona, Pa. He begins the interview by describing his childhood in Pennsylvania; his father's work as a country doctor; and his mother's role as a homemaker. He discusses his college years at Washington & Jefferson and joining the ROTC; navigating the military during his residency; moving to Germany with his family; attending graduate school in Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; working at Darnall Army Hospital in GYN. He describes his training in OB-GYN; abortion services in the Army; and his decision to work at the Knoxville Center for Reproductive Health in Knoxville, Tenn. He describes the difference between the abortion services offered in the military hospital and services offered at the Knoxville clinic. He discusses the ways in which the medical profession as changed since he became a doctor in the 1950s. 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 Forrest Tompkins by Jessie Wilkerson, May 18 2011 U-0549, 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. | U0549_Audio |