Oral history interview with Miriam Slifkin, March 24, 1995
Subtitle: interview G-0175, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Contributors: Degitz, Lynne K., interviewer; Southern Oral History Program; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
Published: 2006
Place of publication: [Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Interviews; Feminists; Women; Women's rights; Violence against; Women's studies; Chapel Hill-Carrboro Rape Crisis Center (N.C.); Orange County Rape Crisis Center (N.C.); National Organization for Women
Other titles: Interview G-0175, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007); Interview with Miriam Slifkin, March 24, 1995; Oral histories of the American South.
Description: Miriam Slifkin, founder of the Orange County Rape Crisis Center, talks about her involvement in the women's movement in Orange County, North Carolina. Slifkin addresses her work both with the Rape Crisis Center (RCC) and the National Organization for Women (NOW). She especially emphasizes tensions between NOW and the RCC. Because of growing anti-feminism in the mid-1970s, she explains that the RCC dissociated itself from NOW. She also addresses tensions among women who were concerned about rape -- some identified themselves as feminists, whereas others did not. Other topics addressed include efforts to reform existing rape laws in North Carolina during the mid-1970s; differences and similarities between national NOW and the North Carolina state chapters; differences between the work of NOW and that of other civil liberties organizations, such as the ACLU; Slifkin's perceptions of class and race in relation to women's activism; the establishment and purposes of women's studies curriculum; and Slifkin's thoughts on education and activism in the mid-1990s.
Notes: Title from menu page (viewed on November 5, 2007).

Interview participants: Miriam Slifkin, interviewee; Lynne Degitz, interviewer.

Duration: 01:50:20.

This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digital library, Documenting the American South.  It is a part of the collection Oral histories of the American South.

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Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series A, Southern politics, interview G-0175, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Original transcript: 25 p.

Funding from the Institute for Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this interview.

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