Lucy Massie Phenix Collection, 1941-2011

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Lucy Massie Phenix Collection, 1941-2011

1941-2011

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/05462/

The Lucy Massie Phenix Collection consists of research files, production notes, audio recordings, film and video, photographs, financial materials, correspondence, and personal papers of Lucy Massie Phenix, a white documentary filmmaker. The bulk of the collection pertains to the 1985 documentary film, You Got to Move, which Lucy Massie Phenix co-directed and edited. The film looks at the social justice activists associated with the Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market, Tenn., formerly known as the Highlander Folk School. Other films represented in the collection include Winter Soldier (1972), a documentary film on soldiers' experiences of the Vietnam War; Word Is Out (1977), a documentary film on the life experiences of gay men and women of various backgrounds; Cancer In Two Voices (1994), a documentary film that follows Barbara Rosenblum, a sociologist diagnosed with breast cancer, and her lesbian partner, Sandy Butler, a feminist writer and activist; Regret To Inform (1998), a documentary film on "the lasting devastation of war through the eyes of women, Vietnamese and American widows of the Vietnam War"; Stranger With a Camera (2000), a documentary film on the murder of Canadian documentary filmmaker, Hugh O'Connor; and Don't Know, We'll See: The Work of Karen Karnes (2008), a documentary film on Karen Karnes,a white American ceramicist. The collection also contains subject files related to organizations with which Phenix was affiliated in the 1960s, including the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and American Friends Service Committee. Personal papers include materials from Phenix's childhood and her student years at Connecticut College for Women from 1960 to 1964.

26 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 9800 items)

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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SNAC Resource ID: 6628498

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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Phenix, Lucie Massie

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"You Got To Move" is a documentary film released in 1985 about southern social justice activists and the Highlander Research and Education Center, formerly known as the Highlander Folk School, in New Market, Tenn. Lucie Massie Phenix directed and edited the film. From the description of Lucie Massie Phenix's materials on "You Got To Move," circa 1981-1983. WorldCat record id: 651662954 You Got To Move is a documentary film released in 1985 about southern social justice act...

Highlander Research and Education Center (Knoxville, Tenn.)

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Myles Horton founded the Highlander Folk School in 1932 as an adult education institution based on the principle of empowerment. Horton and other School members worked towards mobilizing labor unions in the 1930s and Citizenship Schools during the civil rights movement beginning in the late 1950s. They worked with Martin Luther King, Jr., the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), Guy and Candie Carawan, Septima Clark, and Rosa Parks, among others. In 1959, t...