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Object Description
Interview no. | U-0530 |
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 | May 18 2011 |
Interviewee | Robinson, Gail, 1945- |
Interviewee occupation |
Non-profit organization employees Administrative assistants |
Interviewee DOB | 1945 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Fink, Joey Ann. |
Abstract | Gail Robinson worked as an administrative assistant at the Knoxville Women's Center from about 1974-1977. While working there, she interacted with and became friends with many of the women who were or became local leaders of the women's movement in Knoxville, Tenn. While she does not consider herself a feminist, nor did she at the time, she describes how her time at the Knoxville Women's Center positively affected her self-confidence and assertiveness. Topics discussed in this interview include: her childhood experiences and her mother's hard work and self-sacrifice; working at Standard Knitting Mills, then the Knoxville Women's Center, where she provided administrative support, field calls and visits from the public, and worked on the job training program; issues and topics that were discussed and debated at the Women's Center; working at the Urban League and then for the Social Security office; her relationship with her family members, including her husband, daughter, and grandson; lessons learned from her mother; reactions to the Women Center from her neighbors and friends in the African American community; her pride in her daughter's independence and in her grandson's character. This interview is part of the Southern Oral History Program's project to document the women's movement in the American South. |
Subject Geographic |
Knoxville (Tenn.) Mechanicsville (Tenn.) Jackson (Miss.) |
Citation | Interview with Gail Robinson by Joey Fink, May 18 2011 U-0530, 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. | U0530_Transcript |