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Interview no. G-0235
Project G.2.3. Southern Women: Special Focus: Women's Leadership and Grassroots Activism
Project description Interviews, 1993-1998, concentrating on the experiences of women leaders and attempting to redefine leadership to encompass women's efforts in grassroots movements, especially in environmental movements, community development, and self-help organizations. Many interviews were done by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill students; five were conducted by Holloway Sparks with three North Carolina lesbian activists for a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill dissertation on the role of political courage in enabling activism and dissent; and there is also one interview by Pam Grundy with North Carolina State University women's basketball coach Kay Yow.
Interviewee Ritter, Lena S.
Interviewee occupation Factory workers
Interviewer Rouverol, Alicia J., 1961-
Subject Topical Fishing--North Carolina.
Leadership in women--North Carolina.
Fishers--North Carolina.
North Carolina--Social life and customs.
Women fishers--North Carolina.
Permuda Island (N.C.)
Subject Name Ritter, Lena S.
Citation Interview with Lena S. Ritter by Alicia J. Rouverol, 24 April 1995 G-0235, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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