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Interview no. | U-0583 |
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 | February 13 2006 |
Interviewee | Rajendran, Mangala Manju, 1980- |
Interviewee occupation |
Social justice activists Community organizers Artists |
Interviewee DOB | 1980 |
Interviewee ethnicity |
Asian Americans East Indian Americans |
Interviewer | Burge, Bridgette. |
Abstract | Immigration to the United States from India, and various places she lived growing up; Mother's decision to take herself and her children away from her father when Rajendran was 14; Participation as a teenager in the Center for Peace Education's Leadership Institute, Youth Voice Radio, and Lambda Youth Network, and meeting other youth activists for the first time; Effect of her traumatic home life on her early activism; Artwork and writing; the shifts in her class background during her childhood; Father's leaving the country after losing the custody battle for her and her siblings; Rajendran's decision to leave high school at age 16, and her subsequent involvement in the formation of the School in the Community in Chapel Hill, N.C.; Reflections on lessons learned about working with youth and the mentors who have helped guide her; Starting a collective housing project called House of Mango in Durham, N.C. |
Citation | Interview with Manju Rajendran by Bridgette Burge, February 13 2006 U-0583, 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. | U0583_Audio |