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Interview no. | U-0562 |
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 16 2008 |
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 | Decision to take African names, discussion of their meanings; Family background and childhood of Amos Dillahunt; Time working for the federal government; Ajamu Dillahunt early life and childhood; Love of music, particularly jazz; Experience understanding difference in AME and Episcopal churches; Reflection on memory of experiences as “colored” in North Carolina and the boarder United States during the 1950s; Memories of church services; Description of political awakening by Ajamu; Work at the New York Housing Authority; Impact of Martin Luther King Jr., Marcus Garvey and black nationalism, and Black Pride movements on understanding American politics; Mixed race family-Irish and African descent. |
Citation | Interview with Ajamu Dillahunt by Bridgette Burge, December 16 2008 U-0562, 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. | U0562_Audio |