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Interview no. | U-0477 |
Restrictions | Permission from interviewee required for quotation. |
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 | August 5 2010 |
Interviewee | Bingman, Mary Beth. |
Interviewee occupation |
Teachers Volunteers |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Wilkerson, Jessie. |
Abstract | Mary Beth Bingman was an Appalachian Volunteer in the 1960s. She has been involved in various community organizing efforts throughout Appalachia. She is currently the Managing Director at Appalshop in Whitesburg, Ky. She discusses her childhood in Knoxville, Tenn. in the 1950s; her mother’s help in supporting an interracial day camp; attending the interracial day camp; parents views on gender roles; attending Mary Washington College; joining the Appalachian Volunteers; taking a class with Helen Lewis; organizing and attending the High Knob music festival; her views of feminism and the women’s movement; changes in Appalachia; peace activism. This interview is part of the Southern Oral History Program’s project to document the women’s movement in the American South. |
Citation | Interview with Mary Beth Bingman by Jessie Wilkerson, August 5 2010 U-0477, 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. | U0477_Audio |