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Interview no. | U-0588 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | U.18. Long Civil Rights Movement: Heirs to a Fighting Tradition |
Project description | The Heirs Project is a multi-phased oral history initiative that explores the stories and traditions of social justice activism in North Carolina through in-depth interviews with 14 highly respected activists and organizers. Selected for the integrity and high level of skill in their work dedicated to social justice, the interviewees represent a diversity of age, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity. These narratives capture the richness of a set of activists with powerful perspectives on social justice, political activism, and similar visions of the common good. The stories shared by this cohort of activists represent personal moments of transition and transformation, tales of empowerment and exhaustion, and organizing successes and defeats. The Project seeks to highlight the history of progressive political action in North Carolina through the stories and experiences of those who pushed for change. |
Date | September 17 2010 |
Interviewee | Santiago, Mary Zulayka, 1975- |
Interviewee occupation |
Community organizers Directors, NGOs and institutes Social justice activists |
Interviewee DOB | 1975 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Hispanic Americans and Latinos |
Interviewer | Hirst, Luke. |
Abstract | Experience moving from the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico to Louisiana; Meeting her dad for the first and only time; Relationships with her mother and siblings; Mother's various jobs; Family's religion and her own beliefs; Longing for a connection to her ancestors; Moving to Massachusetts and encountering culture shock in the racism there; Adjusting to the United States and being in a bilingual classroom; Doing undergraduate study at University of Massachusetts at Amherst and later Barnard College in New York; Moving to Rockingham, N.C., and working with abused and neglected children; doing grad school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Calling off her engagement and driving to Sedona, Ariz. in a process of coming of age, coming out, and finding a spiritual connection to nature; Returning to North Carolina and getting a job as Youth Program Director at El Pueblo in Raleigh, N.C. |
Citation | Interview with Mary Santiago by Luke Hirst, September 17 2010 U-0588, 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. | U0588_Audio |