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Interview no. | U-0493 |
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 | August 5 2010 |
Interviewee | Pickering, Mimi. |
Interviewee occupation |
Filmographers Volunteers Directors |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Wilkerson, Jessie. |
Abstract | Mimi Pickering grew up on the West Coast in the 1960s. She attended Antioch College and, through an internship program, she became involved in the West Virginia Black Lung Association. In West Virginia, she began working with Appalshop on the film “The Struggle of Coon Branch Mountain.” In 1972, she moved to eastern Kentucky to continue film training and media production at Appalshop, where she has worked since. Her award-winning films include “The Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man” (1975) and “Chemical Valley” (1991). In this interview she discusses growing up in the Bay Area of California; becoming an intern for the Black Lung Association in West Virginia; beginning to work for Appalshop; the women’s movement and consciousness-raising; political shifts in Appalachia; film about Anne Braden; the War on Poverty; media in Appalachia; poverty and gender issues in eastern Kentucky; film on Hazel Dickens; meanings and perceptions of feminism. 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 Mimi Pickering by Jessie Wilkerson, August 5 2010 U-0493, 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. | U0493_Audio |