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Interview no. | U-0996 |
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 | 1 June 2013 |
Interviewee | Cravey, Altha J., 1952- |
Interviewee occupation | Professors |
Interviewee DOB | 1952 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Bryan, Sarah-Kathryn. |
Abstract | Dr. Altha Jane Cravey is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She and I discussed her development as a feminist during our interview, including her lawsuit against the United Postal Service and the state of Indiana for sex discrimination. She contextualized the impact of Title IX in her life as an educator. She mentions the importance of Ms. magazine in creating a sense of feminist community before she had access to one in the early 1970s. During college, she participated in consciousness-raising sessions influenced by the book Our Bodies, Ourselves. In the Department of Geography at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she researches the global factory, and how particular tasks become gendered. Toward the end of the interview, we discussed the importance of community to fostering a sense of purpose in activists’ lives, and ways to live life to the fullest through one’s community. |
Citation | Interview with Altha Cravey by Sarah-Kathryn Bryan, 1 June 2013 U-0996, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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