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Interview no. | U-1007 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | U.16. Long Civil Rights Movement: The Women's Movement in the South |
Project description | Interviews, 2013 and onward, conducted as part of the Moxie Project women's leadership program for undergraduate students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill under the direction of Dr. Rachel Seidman. Student interviewers were interns at Triangle area women's organizations, and conducted interviews with women activists and leaders in the region as part of their service. The interviews are part of the Women's Movement in the South series, containing interviews recorded 2010 onward, that focus on women's activism and gender dynamics that 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. |
Date | 29 July 2013 |
Interviewee | Radcliff, Melissa W. |
Interviewee occupation |
Community organizers Administrators Non-profit organization employees Women's rights activists |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Wilder, Coco. |
Abstract | Early feminism; post-grad work at Rhode Island Domestic Violence Agency; running hotline at rape crisis center; Arizona Prosecutor's Office and Police Department, 1997-2000; conflicts with hotline volunteer expectations and responsibilities; perceived absence of domestic violence in North Carolina and small towns among law enforcement; foundations of Family Violence Prevention Center, 2001; FVPC response to Alan Gates domestic violence case, 2002; court advocacy and witnessing second hand trauma for families of domestic violence victims, 2002; March for Family Peace, 2001-2002; Domestic Violence Awareness Month; candlelight vigils for homicide, 2005; raising awareness of domestic violence at Southern Season and court house through props; Spanish speakers and domestic violence services; improvements in police response; burnout from Executive Director position at FVPC, 2006; work with incarcerated women and their children as Our Children Place's Executive Direction, 2006; challenges of prison stigma to fundraising and organizing. This interview was conducted, to be deposited in the Southern Oral History Program's archives, as part of the pilot summer of the Moxie Project at UNC-Chapel Hill. |
Citation | Interview with Melissa W. Radcliff by Coco Wilder, 29 July 2013 U-1007, 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. | U1007_Audio |