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Interview no. | U-0584 |
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 | February 14 2006 |
Interviewee | Rajendran, Mangala Manju, 1980- |
Interviewee occupation |
Social justice activists Community organizers Artists |
Interviewee DOB | 1980 |
Interviewee ethnicity |
Asian Americans East Indian Americans |
Interviewer | Burge, Bridgette. |
Abstract | Manju’s six-month-long trip to India at age 19; Meeting with her family India, and working with the National Fish Workers Forum and the Science Forum; Decision to study biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; her involvement with the Not Your Soldier Action Camp; Difference between activism and organizing; Desire for a space for activism that balances tangible wins with being able to bring her whole self; Things that sustain and nurture her, including her spirituality; Work with Hip Hop Against Racist War. |
Citation | Interview with Manju Rajendran by Bridgette Burge, February 14 2006 U-0584, 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. | U0584_Transcript |