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Interview no. | U-0638 |
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 | 31 May 2012 |
Interviewee | Smalley, Barbara M. |
Interviewee occupation |
Teachers Managers Women's rights activists |
Interviewee DOB | 1961 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Hoggard, Will. |
Abstract | Overview of Barb Smalley's life; moving to the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Triangle Area in North Carolina; how she played soccer and started working part-time with Ladyslipper Music through her collegiate academic career; moved onto full time work upon finishing schooling; the impact of Ladyslipper on the lesbian women's movement in the Triangle; how Laurie Fuchs came to begin Ladyslipper with the goal of cataloging all women's music; The drama that went on when being in that type of environment; how work and play meshed, but large amounts of work were still accomplished; how the financial troubles stated to affect Ladyslipper; how the women who came to look for these big lesbian movement starters had to look harder in old age although they were all hiding in the open; the goal of Ladyslipper and if it was achieved or not; did all music of Ladyslipper have political undertones; how the women's movement and Ladyslipper affected Smalley’s development as a person; Thank yous and reflections |
Citation | Interview with Barbara Smalley by Will Hoggard, 31 May 2012 U-0638, 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. | U0638_Audio |