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Interview no. | U-1004 |
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 | 8 July 2013 |
Interviewee | Gruelle, Kit. |
Interviewee occupation |
Community organizers Women's rights activists |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Wilder, Coco. |
Abstract | Kit Gruelle, an activist in the North Carolina battered women's movement, was born in Miami, Fla. in 1954 where she lived with her adoptive family until she moved to the North Carolina mountains at age seventeen. A survivor of domestic violence, Gruelle became an advocate for battered women with the Orange-Durham Coalition for Battered Women in the 1980s. Since then, Gruelle’s advocacy has included community education, funding for prevention and shelters, and training law enforcement and medical students at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to work with domestic violence cases. She discusses different relationships in her life, concepts like feminism, humanism, gender roles, victim blaming, and terminology used to describe abuse against women. Gruelle is Special Advisor to the documentary film Private Violence, which challenges assumptions about gender-based violence. 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 Kit Gruelle by Coco Wilder, 8 July 2013 U-1004, 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. | U1004_Audio |