About

Over the course of the 2011 spring semester, full-time undergraduate students Baye Cobb, Crystal Chalk and Risa Isard (bios here) researched the women’s movement of Chapel Hill and Durham, North Carolina as part of a documentary studies class at Duke University. This website is the culmination of significant archival research and over a dozen oral history interviews with individuals who were devoted to the movement.

For more information, see the following pages:
Why We Chose This Topic
Our Methodology
Why Oral History?
What We’ve Gained
Acknowledgements
About the Researchers

Website Navigation Tips: Clicking on any of the images will enlarge them. To zoom in further: On a PC, hold the Control (“Ctrl”) key while pressing the +/= key. On a mac, hold the apple key while pressing the +/= key. Also, please note that our website is most compatible when viewed in a full screen (or at least big enough that all of the tabs across the top are situated in one row).

On this website we’ve posted many notable quotes as videos (and sound clips where video wasn’t available), along with their transcriptions. If you don’t remember where a certain video or audio clip is located, you can find all of them in the Gallery . All interviews, in their entirety, are archived at Duke University’s Rare Book, Manuscript and Special Collections Library; they are open to the public.

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