Activist Life Oral History
Project, 2008
3 boxes (1.25 linear ft.)
Collection number: MS 641
Terms of Access and Use:
The papers are open to research according to the regulations of the Sophia Smith Collection.
Partially restricted access - contact the Sophia Smith Collection for more information.
The Sophia Smith Collection owns copyright except for interviews with following women who have retained copyright: Merle Feld, Barbara Hammer, and Lesléa Newman. Permission must be obtained to publish reproductions or quotations beyond "fair use." Requests for permission to publish quotations should be addressed to the Sophia Smith Collection and should include identification of the specific passages to be quoted, anticipated use of the passages, and identification of the user. It is the responsibility of the researcher to identify and satisfy the holders of all copyrights.
Interviews were conducted by Smith College students in Kelly Anderson's Smith College course "Women's Activism and Oral History" in the Fall of 2008. Students were trained in both the history of women's activism and oral history techniques and protocols.
An Activist Life Oral History Project is a collection of life histories of women who have dedicated their lives to social and political activism. The project documents both the diversity and the persistence of women's activism, as organizers and as cultural workers, in a variety of social movements such as women's health, economic justice, LGBT liberation, peace, education, and environmental sustainability. Narrators include educators and academics, musicians, writers, and artists, as well as community and religious leaders. They come from a variety of class, ethnic, racial, social, and geographic backgrounds. Interviews cover childhood and growing up experiences; education and employment; activism and politics; family, identity, relationships and community.
Narrators include:
Full transcripts can be found on the project Web site.
The papers are open to research according to the regulations of the Sophia Smith Collection.
Partially restricted access - contact the Sophia Smith Collection for more information.
The Sophia Smith Collection owns copyright except for interviews with following women who have retained copyright: Merle Feld, Barbara Hammer, and Lesléa Newman. Permission must be obtained to publish reproductions or quotations beyond "fair use." Requests for permission to publish quotations should be addressed to the Sophia Smith Collection and should include identification of the specific passages to be quoted, anticipated use of the passages, and identification of the user. It is the responsibility of the researcher to identify and satisfy the holders of all copyrights.
Please use the following format when citing materials from this collection:
Activist Life Oral History Project, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Mass.
Transcripts available on SSC Website: http://www.smith.edu/libraries/libs/ssc/activist/activists-intro.html
The Activist Life Oral History Project were donated to the Sophia Smith Collection by Kelly Anderson in April 2009.
Processed by Burd Schlessinger, June 2009
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