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Interview no. | U-0564 |
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 | December 18 2009 |
Interviewee | Dillahunt, Ajamu, 1945- |
Interviewee occupation |
Social justice activists Community organizers Labor leaders Academics |
Interviewee DOB | 1945 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Burge, Bridgette. |
Abstract | Reflections on growing up in Queens, N.Y.; Family emphasis on education; Effects of GI Bill on family; Explanation of personal political philosophy; Description of The Right to the Cities Movement as a contemporary successful movement; Successful organizations with socialist value systems-Miami Workers center, POWER in San Francisco, Calif., and The HK on J (The Historic Thousands on Jones Street); Successful moments organizing; Competency tests biases and children of color; North Carolina Peace and Justice Coalition successes; Role with Freedom Books and the importance of independent bookstores; Personal battle with prostate cancer; Description of things that motivate Dillahunt as an organizer and those things that shut him down; Hopes and plans for the future. |
Citation | Interview with Ajamu Dillahunt by Bridgette Burge, December 18 2009 U-0564, 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. | U0564_Audio |