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Interview no. | U-0575 |
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 | March 7 2008 |
Interviewee | Okun, Tema. |
Interviewee occupation |
Academics Social justice activists Directors, NGOs and institutes |
Interviewee DOB | 1952 |
Interviewee ethnicity |
Jews Whites |
Interviewer | Burge, Bridgette. |
Abstract | Father's death and funeral; Belief that best moments in her life as an organizer are when strength was found through a group effort; Power of storytelling and its role in activism; Work toward a PhD at University of North Carolina at Greensboro in Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations; Experience in Heirs project and perspective on oral history. |
Citation | Interview with Tema Okun by Bridgette Burge,March 7 2008 U-0575, 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. | U0575_Audio |