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Interview no. | U-0592 |
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 | March 31 2006 |
Interviewee | Zelter, Barbara. |
Interviewee occupation |
Community organizers Directors, NGOs and institutes Social justice activists |
Interviewee DOB | 1950 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Burge, Bridgette. |
Abstract | Impotance of labor organizing in the South; Labor abuses and industrial problems at the Smithfield Farm in Bladen County, N.C.; Development of different organizing techniques by Latinos at the Worker Center in red Springs and by progressive black community members at the Religion-Labor-Community Coalition; International attention gained by unfair labor practices and union conflict in North Carolina; Zelter's experience as a member of the Heir's Project planning committee; Personal emotions regarding oral history. |
Citation | Interview with Barbara Zelter by Bridgette Burge, March 31 2006 U-0592, 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. | U0592_Transcript |