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Voices from the Southern Oral History Program
Mountain Feminist
Helen Matthews Lewis, Appalachian Studies, and the Long Women's Movement
from an interview by Jessica Wilkerson
compiled and introduced by Jessica Wilkerson and David P. Cline
The "Grandmother of Appalachian Studies" reveals the parallels between the Civil Rights and Women's movements, as well as her highly ambivalent feelings about her own marriage—and much more.
"They didn't take us to jail. They pulled us out individually, and the policeman said to me, 'What would your daddy think if he saw you dancing with a nigger?'"
Mountain Feminist
Helen Matthews Lewis, Appalachian Studies, and the Long Women's Movement
from an interview by Jessica Wilkerson
compiled and introduced by Jessica Wilkerson and David P. Cline
The "Grandmother of Appalachian Studies" reveals the parallels between the Civil Rights and Women's movements, as well as her highly ambivalent feelings about her own marriage—and much more.
"They didn't take us to jail. They pulled us out individually, and the policeman said to me, 'What would your daddy think if he saw you dancing with a nigger?'"
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About Jessica Wilkerson
Jessica Wilkerson is a doctoral candidate in Women's and Gender History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research explores women's activism in the Mountain South in the 1970s. She is currently working with the Southern Oral History Program on the women's movement phase of their ongoing Long Civil Rights Movement research.
Other books by Jessica Wilkerson
David P. Cline
David P. Cline is the Associate Director of the Southern Oral History Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Creating Choice: A Community Responds to the Need for Abortion and Birth Control, 1961–1973, and is currently working on several projects concerned with the intersection between Christian faith and social activism.
Other books by David P. Cline
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