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Interview no. | U-1062 |
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 | 9 July 2014 |
Interviewee | Turner, Katherine L. |
Interviewee occupation | Professors |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | Unidentified |
Interviewer | Desgages, Brittany. |
Abstract | Katherine L. Turner was born in Erie Pennsylvania in 1967. She serves as the Senior Advisor at IPAS and she is also Adjunct Faculty of the Health Behavior Department at the UNC Gillings School of Public Health. Because Turner’s father worked for General Electric, her family moved both internationally and around the country throughout her childhood years. She has a wide range of activist experience in the women’s movement both domestically and internationally. She is also a member of the leadership team at the Pauli Murray Project. Topics discussed in this interview include her experience at Duke University; her relationship with her family; her work in Netherlands with the American Field Service; her feminist awakening; her understanding of feminism both domestically and internationally; her founding of Global Citizen, LLC; her involvement in social justice work and activism; her interest and involvement in public health; her experience coming out as an LGBTQ-identified person; what led to her involvement with the Pauli Murray Project. This interview was conducted, to be deposited in the Southern Oral History Program’s archives, as part of the 2014 Moxie Project at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
Citation | Interview with Katherine L. Turner by Margaret "Meg" A. Foster, 9 July 2014 U-1062, 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. | U1062_Audio |