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Interview no. | U-1055 |
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 | 23 June 2014 |
Interviewee | Kirk, Robin. |
Interviewee occupation |
Directors, NGOs and institutes Journalists |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Pederson, Sarah. |
Abstract | Robin Kirk is the Director of the Duke Human Rights Center. She previously worked as a human rights investigator for Human Rights Watch and began her career as a journalist covering the Shining Path insurgent movement in Peru in the 1980s. She has dedicated her life to human rights advocacy and hopes to support Duke students in their development of human rights awareness both locally and globally. During the interview, we discussed her development of social justice consciousness, harnessing writing as a method for social and political change, lessons about human nature, social movement, genocide, and democracy taken from her experiences observing the Shining Path insurgency movement, understanding feminism across international and cultural contexts, the impact of her female identity on career development, Kirk’s shift to develop human rights awareness locally after 9/11, the founding of the Duke Human Rights Center, connecting human rights abuses across international contexts, the power of self-examination of privilege and facing our realities, and the influence of Pauli Murray in Kirk’s development as an activist and person. This interview was conducted, to be deposited in the Southern Oral History Program’s archives, as part of the 2014 Moxie Project at UNC-Chapel Hill. |
Citation | Interview with Robin Kirk by Sarah Pederson, 23 June 2014 U-1055, 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. | U1055_Audio |