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Interview no. | U-0570 |
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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 16 2010 |
Interviewee | Jacobs, Elizabeth LaChelle. |
Interviewee occupation |
Social justice activists Directors, NGOs and institutes Community organizers |
Interviewee DOB | 1981 |
Interviewee ethnicity |
Native Americans Lumbee Indians |
Interviewer | Guo, Merrybelle. |
Abstract | Lumbee tribe quest for federal recognition; Work with Lumbee Sovereignty Coalition; successes in her work; Growing up in a racially segregated community; Stereotypes about Native Americans and how they affect the community; Self-perpetuating social issues in troubled communities; Complications and divisions in community organizations; Bob Dumas of Raleigh-Durham, N.C. radio station G105's inflammatory remarks about Lumbee's and the subsequent protest; Brown Babies’ development and work; Transitions to new opportunities; Benefits and lessons working to improve education at the North Carolina state level with North Carolina Justice Center; Differences between work and policies in different communities; Importance of living Robeson County, N.C.; Experience returning to Lumberton, N.C.; Activism and organizing in the South/Robeson County vs activism and organizing elsewhere; What she loves about Robeson County, N.C. |
Citation | Interview with Elizabeth Jacobs by Merrybelle Guo, June 16 2010 U-0570, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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