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Interview no. | U-0580 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | U.18. Long Civil Rights Movement: Heirs to a Fighting Tradition |
Project description | The Heirs Project is a multi-phased oral history initiative that explores the stories and traditions of social justice activism in North Carolina through in-depth interviews with 14 highly respected activists and organizers. Selected for the integrity and high level of skill in their work dedicated to social justice, the interviewees represent a diversity of age, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity. These narratives capture the richness of a set of activists with powerful perspectives on social justice, political activism, and similar visions of the common good. The stories shared by this cohort of activists represent personal moments of transition and transformation, tales of empowerment and exhaustion, and organizing successes and defeats. The Project seeks to highlight the history of progressive political action in North Carolina through the stories and experiences of those who pushed for change. |
Date | July 18 2008 |
Interviewee | Proffitt, Bryan David, 1978- |
Interviewee occupation |
Teachers Social justice activists |
Interviewee DOB | 1978 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Burge, Bridgette. |
Abstract | Description of his parents’ personalities, grandparents, sister; Growing up on military bases and moving frequently; Family dynamics shaping his role as a caretaker and open communicator; military bases being socialist in many ways; Sheltered, safe, somewhat privileged childhood in the sense of being taken care of by the military; Father being a high-ranking officer, always having health care, decent education and basic needs met; supportive parenting and Catholicism shaping his values; Avoiding sex, drugs & alcohol in high school; Influential history and social studies teachers; Political awakening in college through anti sexual violence work and hip-hop rooted activism particularly around the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq; Connecting with Billy Wimsatt around white privilege and the prison-industrial complex; Working for Reciprocity; Transformative trip to Haiti in college; Changing his major from microbiology and aspirations to become a doctor to engineering to teaching history. |
Citation | Interview with Bryan Proffitt by Bridgette Burge, July 18 2008 U-0580, 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. | U0580_Audio |