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Scope and Contents Interviewed by Susan Barrett: In this interview, Doris Shulman Gordon begins by talking about her childhood and young adulthood, including her education and her marriage at age twenty-one. She discusses her career, including teaching math at a junior college, working as a sex educator, counseling patients at an abortion clinic, and working as a therapist. She talks about her experiences at Karuna Counseling and how they have informed her work as a therapist since. She and Susan Barrett...

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Interviewed by Ilene Schroeder

Scope and Contents Interviewed by Eleanor Smith. In this interview, Marlene Johnson talks about growing up in a peripatetic military family, and her experiences growing up African-American in various locales during the 1950s and 1960s. Throughout the interview, she describes experiences of being alienated or ostracized, whether for her race, her sexuality, or her manner of conducting herself. She talks about coming out as a lesbian and working at Karuna Counseling, where she encountered systemic racism despite...

Scope and Contents Interviewed by Susan Barrett. In this interview, Beverly Jones begins by providing background information on her family, including her abusive father. She discusses her education and her switch from nursing to psychology, which enabled her career in counseling. Jones talks about her experience with the women's movement, including the racism that pervaded the movement's mainstream. She discusses sexism and racism in her various workplaces, including racism at Karuna, and describes the...

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Interviewed by Doris Gordon.

Scope and Contents Interviewed by Susan Barrett. In this interview, Carole Ory describes her difficult family life and childhood. She talks about her education, meeting her husband in college, and dating then marrying him against her mother's wishes. Ory describes her career as a social worker and talks particularly about her time working at Karuna Counseling. She describes her experience at Karuna as overwhelmingly positive, though she discusses feeling "judged" by certain colleagues for being straight and...

Scope and Contents Interviewed by Ilene Schroeder. In this interview, Sharon Sanders describes her early life as the daughter of a Baptist minister. She describes her relationship with her mother as involving frequent conflict. Sanders discusses her experiences as a hippie in the 1960s, including moving from place to place with her girlfriend. She describes her education and career path and discusses her time at Karuna in detail. Throughout the interview, Sanders characterizes herself as politically...

Scope and Contents Interviewed by Franklin Abbott: In this interview, Ilene Schroeder begins by talking about her family and briefly talks about her childhood. She describes moving to Georgia from Brooklyn and feeling like an outsider, then becoming more comfortable with herself while at the University of Georgia. She talks about the feminist and anti-war activism she engaged in as a college student. Schroeder talks about living in various parts of Georgia in a communal situation with some friends, including a...

Scope and Contents Interviewed by Ilene Schroeder: In this interview, Eleanor Smith begins by talking about growing up in central Illinois. She discusses her experience of being disabled as a child after contracting polio at age three. Smith talks about the process of accepting her lesbian sexuality, beginning with a relationship in college. She also discusses how she became interested in psychology, which led her to become a therapist at Karuna Counseling. Smith talks about her experiences working at Karuna...

Scope and Contents Interviewed by Ilene Schroeder. In this interview, Lisa Anyan Smith recounts her childhood and her family's moves around the United States to accommodate her father's career at the Ford Motor company as well as her family's past and current dynamics. She then discusses her motivations, including her own trauma experience, for becoming a therapist, her time as a stay-at-home parent, and the challenges and opportunities she faced returning to career. In conclusion, Smith offers insight into...

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Interviewed by Cyndi Carpentieri

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Interviewed by Karen Stephens. This interviewee briefly describes the political climate of her upbringing, and how she came to participate in the Atlanta Women's March. She describes her experiences at the march and her reflections afterwards. She also describes her and her husband's experiences under oppressive governments outside the United States, and how they have affected her perspective of recent political events.

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Interviewed by Karen Stephens

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Interviewed by Will Greer

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Interviewed by Morna Gerrard. In this interview, John Adcox introduces his family history and political background. He discusses his education and his reasons for attending the Atlanta March for Social Justice and Women. The bulk of the interview examines his experiences the day of the march: how he traveled, emotions, anxieties, speakers, etc. He also speaks about his hopes and fears for future United States politics/elections.

Scope and Contents Interviewed by Cyndi Carpentieri. In this interview, Amber Brannon discusses her family's and her own political leanings. She talks about her experiences at the Atlanta March for Social Justice and Women, including seeing John Lewis, feeling like part of something bigger than herself, and her interactions with other marchers. She connects the women's marches to other activist efforts like Black Lives Matter and talks about the role of privilege in activism. Brannon expresses strong...

Scope and Contents Interviewed by Karen Stephens. In this interview, Christopher Broom discusses his experience at the Atlanta March for Social Justice and Women, which he attended with a group of friends. He talks about the congeniality of the crowd, signs and chants, and his feelings during the march. He compares the march with other marches he has attended in the past to support gay rights. Broom talks about his hopes and fears for the future under the Trump administration and the importance of staying...

Scope and Contents Interviewed by Karen Stephens. In this interview, Kelly Callahan discusses her motivation to attend the Atlanta March for Social Justice and Women, including her desire to show solidarity with women, gay people, transgender people, and other vulnerable populations. She discusses her experience marching with a group of friends, including describing the positive energy of the crowd, describing signs she saw, the presence of police at the march, and her own feelings while it was happening....

Scope and Contents Interviewed by Morna Gerrard. In this interview, Cyndi Carpentieri discusses her own and her family's political views. She talks about her career in public health, and how it has influenced her politics and been affected by politics. She describes her experiences at the Atlanta March for Social Justice and Women on January 21, 2017, then expresses her hopes and fears for the future during the remainder of Donald Trump's term as president. Carpentieri discusses political activities in which...

Scope and Contents Interviewed by Karen Stephens. In this interview, Staci Catron begins by talking about her family's and her own liberal political views, and the political activities in which she has participated. Catron discusses the issues that are most important to her. She describes her experience at the Atlanta March for Social Justice and Women, including the diversity of the crowd, chants she heard, and marching with a group of fellow Agnes Scott College students and alumnae. She talks about the...