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Interview no. | U-0574 |
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 14 2007 |
Interviewee | Okun, Tema. |
Interviewee occupation |
Academics Social justice activists Directors, NGOs and institutes |
Interviewee DOB | 1952 |
Interviewee ethnicity |
Jews Whites |
Interviewer | Burge, Bridgette. |
Abstract | Trip to Ramallah in West Bank; Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions and Israeli government; Personal theory on community and the processes of change; Experience teaching as an adjunct at Duke University in Durham, N.C. and Guilford College in Greensboro, N.C.; Violence and powerlessness; Complexity of race; Experience in architecture school at North Carolina State University; Personal battle against bulimia; Involvement in The Women's Group; Complex relationship with mother; Lack of desire to have children. |
Citation | Interview with Tema Okun by Bridgette Burge, September 14 2007 U-0574, 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. | U0574_Audio |