Janet Paulk oral history interview [sound recording], 2002 April 10 & 2003 February 19.

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Janet Paulk oral history interview [sound recording], 2002 April 10 & 2003 February 19.

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A minister's daughter, Paulk describes her childhood in Grafton, West Virginia as very happy. She states that she was able to pursue all of her interests, including chemistry, education and music. Paulk describes her early unsuccessful marriage to the son of the Chilean Secretary of Transportation, which resulted in her living and traveling to South America. She states that it was during this period in her life that she developed a growing awareness that she was not willing to accept the traditional roles ascribed to women. By the late 1960s, married for the second time, Paulk became increasingly interested in civil rights, community organizing and the need to emancipate women. She says she belonged to a number of discussion groups, comprised of "ardent feminists," and began to learn from them. Paulk describes working at Emory University, and becoming aware of blatant discrimination in the workplace, in terms of salary inequity and retirement benefits. She says she became involved in a number of local women's groups such as the Democratic Women of DeKalb, the Feminist Action Alliance, the Unitarian Universalist Women's Federation, and ERA Georgia, Inc., and discusses the difficulty in trying to get these different groups to work together. Paulk ends her oral history by reciting a poem she wrote about feminist Maria Getzinger Jones.

2 sound cassettes.transcript 47 leaves ; 28 cm.

Georgia State University

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