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Interview no. | U-0631 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | U.16. Long Civil Rights Movement: The Women's Movement in the South |
Project description | Interviews, 2010 onward, that focus on women's activism and gender dynamics, which were central to the freedom movement and the backlash against it. Topics include reproductive activism, both anti-abortion and pro-choice; the emergence of second-wave feminism in the mountain South and its links to the civil rights movement; the War on Poverty and challenges to job discrimination inspired by Title VII; and the entry of women into the University of North Carolina. Interviews from Knoxville, Tenn., and surrounding areas focus on faith-based activism in Appalachia and its relation to feminism. |
Date | 7 June 2012 |
Interviewee | Fuchs, Laurie. |
Interviewee occupation |
Women's rights activists Musicians |
Interviewee DOB | 1951 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Hoggard, Will. |
Abstract | Introduction to Laurie Fuchs; Explanation of the idea of Ladyslipper Music; small background piece on the community Fuchs lived in; background on the move to Durham, N.C.; talks about First-Things-First and how it opened her eyes up to feminist ideals; listening and discovering political musicians and the personal influence it had; music movement gets on the move in the Triangle area in North Carolina; many cultural, political, and social things get on the rise; women make their own music festival in lieu of them not booking women artists; Women’s Music Festival in Michigan – the spark that started Ladyslipper’s big arrival and how the ball started rolling; Talks about the Warner Bros. boycott; WAVAW – Women Against Violence Against Women; Story of the first Ladyslipper Catalogue ever produced; breakthrough occurs; Peak of Ladyslipper; talks about the women’s movement, how Ladyslipper was a part of it and how the role players in the women’s movement operated; how Ladyslipper effected the Triangle area and vice versa; how Fuchs’s upbringing got her to where she is currently and family history; reflections on how men would make passes at her around the beginning of the Feminist movement and in the commune; thanks and final words |
Citation | Interview with Laurie Fuchs by Will Hoggard, 7 June 2013 U-0631, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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