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Interview no. | U-0806 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | U.16. Long Civil Rights Movement: The Women's Movement in the South |
Project description | Interviews, 2010 onward, that focus on women's activism and gender dynamics, which were central to the freedom movement and the backlash against it. Topics include reproductive activism, both anti-abortion and pro-choice; the emergence of second-wave feminism in the mountain South and its links to the civil rights movement; the War on Poverty and challenges to job discrimination inspired by Title VII; and the entry of women into the University of North Carolina. Interviews from Knoxville, Tenn., and surrounding areas focus on faith-based activism in Appalachia and its relation to feminism. |
Date | 31 May 2012 |
Interviewee | Smotherman, Linda L., 1950- |
Interviewee occupation |
Environmental activists Laboratory technologists |
Interviewee DOB | 1950 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Mee, Evangeline. |
Abstract | Linda Smotherman is from the Piney community in Van Buren County, Tenn.. She became president of Save Our Cumberland Mountains (SOCM) in 1983. She started college at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) in 1968. She finished at the Medical Laboratory School at MTSU in 1972. She worked at River Park Hospital in McMinnville, Tenn., until 1978. Around that time, she got involved with SOCM and later served as president. |
Citation | Interview with Linda L. Smotherman by Evangeline Mee, 31 May 2012 U-0806, 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. | U0806_Audio |