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By Miriam Slifkin
Oral history interview with Miriam Slifkin, March 24, 1995: interview G-0175, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Slifkin, Miriam · 2006 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
Miriam Slifkin started the Rape Crisis Center in Orange County and was active in feminist organizing there. Interviewed by Lynne Degitz in March 1995, she describes the center's work on violence against women and her role in NOW (National Organization for Women), and she is frank about friction between NOW and other parts of the local movement. About an hour and fifty minutes, part of the Southern Oral History Program; electronic edition from the UNC library, 2006, through Documenting the American South.
Miriam Slifkin papers,
Slifkin, Miriam · 1961
Papers of Miriam Slifkin, the Chapel Hill women's rights activist who founded and led North Carolina's chapter of the National Organization for Women and founded the Orange County Rape Crisis Center. Much of the 7.5 linear feet, about 5,000 items dating from 1961, is the NOW chapter's working files: letters, newsletters, speeches, budgets, fund raising and material on sex discrimination. A Rubenstein Library collection at Duke.
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