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Object Description
Interview no. | G-0019 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | G.1. Southern Women: Individual Biographies |
Project description | Interviews, 1964-1991 (bulk 1970s), focusing on women's participation in movements for social change. Many deal with southern women active in reform movements between the 1910s women's suffrage movement and the 1960s feminist movement and explore the interaction between the private lives and public activities of women representing various social classes and races. Interviewees include women involved in labor and workers' education movements; African American and white women active in the civil rights movement; and women who, in addition to their contributions to these reform movements, also pursued professional careers. |
Date | October 31, 1974 |
Interviewee | Cook, Alice Hanson. |
Interviewee occupation | Professors |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Frederickson, Mary. |
Abstract | Comparison of Bryn Mawr's and Southern Summer School's programs and original ideas; the kind of women involved in these movements; their backgrounds and commonalities; bits and pieces on various specific women; class consciousness circa 1930 among working women; Elizabeth Gilman; persons connected with the school who had communist affiliations--Holly Ransdale, Beulah Howard, McLaren's husband; some discussion of the socialist party activities with which Cook was affiliated--e.g. Southern Tenant farmers; differences between McLaren's administration and "Brownie's--also discussion of intervening external factors, e.g. CIO, WPA, Depression; Cook's work with the CIO. |
Subject Topical |
Labor unions--Officials and employees--Southern States. Women civil rights workers. |
Subject Name |
Southern Summer School for Women Workers in Industry (U.S.) Communist Party of the United States of America. |
Citation | Interview with Alice Hanson Cook by Mary Frederickson, 31 October 1974 G-0019, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Description
Interview no. | G-0019 |