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Interview no. | U-0553 |
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 20 2006 |
Interviewee | Brown, Cynthia D. |
Interviewee occupation |
Social justice activists Non-profit organization employees Political candidates |
Interviewee DOB | 1958 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Burge, Bridgette. |
Abstract | Personal outlook on work; Growing up and early life in New York; Grandmother and American Tobacco; Family History and Unionism-Mother a textile worker and Uncle a tobacco organizer; Church as influence on youth and source of life guidance; Black migration-family moves from Georgia to New York; College educated family; Similarities between Cynthia Brown and her Mom in terms of personality; Description of first job; Southerners for Economic Justice; Experience in first job; Effects of white supremacy; Growing up in a predominately black community; Earning a college education; Work with National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCDAV); Experience working with the NCADV to challenge Phyllis Shlafly and the Eagle Forum; Power of collective organization; Value of diversity; General need to question economic institutions to acquire social freedom. |
Citation | Interview with Cynthia D. Brown by Bridgette Burge, February 20 2006 U-0553, 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. | U0553_Audio |