Tamar Carroll Oral Histories on Women's Health Action and Mobilization (WHAM!)

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Tamar Carroll Oral Histories on Women's Health Action and Mobilization (WHAM!)

1990, 2003-2005

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Tamar Carroll is a history professor at Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York. Between 2003 and 2005, while a PhD candidate in history at the University of Michigan, Carroll conducted oral histories with members of Women's Health Action and Mobilization (WHAM!) for her dissertation. The Tamar Carroll Oral Histories on Women's Health Action and Mobilization (WHAM!) document Carroll's work conducting oral histories with members of WHAM! between 2003 and 2005 as part of her dissertation project. The collection consists of audio recordings of individual interviews, and video recordings of group interviews and a WHAM! reunion.

1 Linear Feet in 2 card boxes, 21 sound discs (cd), 2 dvd-r disks, 1 audiocassette, 7.87 Gigabytes in 15 computer files

eng, Latn

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WHAM! (Women's Health Action and Mobilization) (Organization : 1989)

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Women's Health Action and Mobilization (WHAM!) was founded in 1989 in response to the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Webster vs. Reproductive Health Services of Missouri, which granted states more power to restrict women's access to abortion. WHAM! began as a direct action committee of the Reproductive Rights Coalition (RRC), and later became an independent organization following the dissolution of the RRC. WHAM! emerged at a moment when abortion became one of the most prominent, controversial...

Carroll, Tamar

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Tamar Carroll is a historian and professor at Rochester Institute of Technology. Her research interests include modern U.S. history, women’s and gender history, public history, and digital humanities. She is the author of Mobilizing New York: AIDS, Antipoverty, and Feminist Activism and Nasty Women and Bad Hombres: Gender and Race in the 2016 US Presidential Election. She grew up in Andover, Massachusetts and studied history and journalism at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She rece...