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Interview no. | U-0571 |
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Materials from this interview may not be made available online without the interviewee's prior written consent. Permission from interviewee required to read, listen to, or quote from this interview. Closed during interviewee's lifetime. |
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 | June 29 2010 |
Interviewee | Jacobs, Elizabeth LaChelle. |
Interviewee occupation |
Social justice activists Directors, NGOs and institutes Community organizers |
Interviewee DOB | 1981 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Native Americans |
Interviewer | Guo, Merrybelle. |
Abstract | Personal definition of community organizing; Relationship and difference between place and organizing efforts; Organizing vs. activism; Moment Jacobs first felt like an organizer; Managing so many different simultaneous projects; Balance of life and work; Collaborating with other community groups; Experience being a political activist and why she is no longer directly politically active; Julian Pierce's influence on her and her work; Effects of gender, age, class on work as an activist; Life as a community based lawyer despite financial realities; Past and future struggles for Robeson County, N.C.; What gives Jacobs hope ;Visions and plans for the future ; Favorite books and reading material; Music in her life and work; Vision of a liberated world; Hopes for her life and her child's life; How Jacobs sustains herself in such a demanding field; Reasons for being involved in the Heirs Project; Who Jacobs would interview for Heirs. |
Citation | Interview with Elizabeth Jacobs by Merrybelle Guo, June 29 2010 U-0571, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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