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Interview no. | U-0573 |
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 | June 22 2007 |
Interviewee | Okun, Tema. |
Interviewee occupation |
Academics Social justice activists Directors, NGOs and institutes |
Interviewee DOB | 1952 |
Interviewee ethnicity |
Jews Whites |
Interviewer | Burge, Bridgette. |
Abstract | Personal perception of the difference between activism and organizing; Definition of organizing; Importance of organizing communities, Black and white binary inside Southern culture; Effects of change in national and regional demographics; Si Kahn and the founding and development of Grassroots Leadership; Change in leftist ideology; UBUNTU group; Healing women victimized by rape and sexual assault; Involvement with the Institute for Southern Studies; Development and purpose of Changework; Zionism and International impact; State of Judaism today. |
Citation | Interview with Tema Okun by Bridgette Burge, June 22 2007 U-0573, 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. | U0573_Audio |