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Interview no. | U-0581 |
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 | July 22 2008 |
Interviewee | Proffitt, Bryan David, 1978- |
Interviewee occupation |
Teachers Social justice activists |
Interviewee DOB | 1978 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Burge, Bridgette. |
Abstract | Vision of a liberated world; Teaching at Apex High School in Apex, N.C. and Hillside High School in Durham, N.C.; Teaching a class on ending sexual violence at North Carolina State University and founding Men Against Rape Culture (MARC); Work with UBUNTU stemming from the allegations of racial harassment and rape from an African-American student at North Carolina Central University; Worker and mother who was hired to strip for members of the Duke Lacrosse team at a party; Organizing teachers; Role with Hip-Hop Against Racist War, NC Peace and Justice Coalition, United for Peace and Justice; more on campus organizing at North Carolina State University; Personal understandings of communism, socialism, and revolution; Inspirational mentors. |
Citation | Interview with Bryan Proffitt by Bridgette Burge, July 22 2008 U-0581, 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. | U0581_Audio |