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Interview no. | U-0482 |
Restrictions | Closed until 2 December 2033. |
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 12 2010 |
Interviewee | Garland, Becki, 1954- |
Interviewee occupation |
Counselors Women's rights activists |
Interviewee DOB | 1954 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Wilkerson, Jessie. |
Abstract | Becki Garland has been a counselor for the sexual assault crisis center in Knoxville, Tennessee since the 1980s. In this interview she discusses growing up in a small town in Tennessee and the expectations that adults had of girls. She moved to Knoxville as a young adult to attend the University of Tennessee, and there she learned about feminism and the women’s movement. She describes a women’s health event she attended when she was a student, joining a consciousness-raising group, and participating in the first rape crisis hotline at the university. She describes her experiences with the National Organization of Women and how she tried to instill feminist values in her family. She discusses what it means to be a feminist counselor and how the sexual assault crisis center in Knoxville has changed over the years. This interview is part of the Southern Oral History Program’s project to document the women’s movement in the American South. |
Subject Name | University of Tennessee, Knoxville. |
Subject Geographic |
Irwin (Tenn.) Union County (Tenn.) Knoxville (Tenn.) Nashville (Tenn.) |
Citation | Interview with Becki Garland by Jessie Wilkerson, August 12 2010 U-0482, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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