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In this oral history interview, Dr. Ramsey discusses her overarching vision for establishing special collections for Women’s and Gender Studies Program (WGST) at Atkins Library. As a preserver of history, she has contributed richly to encapsulating 40 years of WGST history at UNC Charlotte by leading and spearheading this work. r. Ramsey discusses her commitment to women’s studies and gender studies by emphasizing the need for advancing scholarship and providing ample opportunities for women of all races. She discusses her formidable leadership of the program as it celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2024, how she brought about the inaugural Carver and Cloninger Oral History Fellowship and Essay Contest, as well as subsequent conference presentation at WGS South, and Documentary.

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Title
Ramsey, Sonya oral history interview, 2024-03-08
Creator
Ramsey, Sonya Yvette, Interviewee
Contributor
Davis, Joy (J. Joy), Interviewer
Date (Text)
2024-03-08
Place of Creation
Charlotte, North Carolina
Publisher
J. Murrey Atkins Special Collections and University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Extent
1 video file (1:03:02) : digital, MP4 + 1 transcript (31 pages)
Biographical/Historical Note
Dr. Sonya Ramsey was the Director of Women’s and Gender Studies program at UNC Charlotte at the time of this interview. Dr. Ramsey was born in Nashville, Tennessee, and earned her BA in Journalism from Howard University and her MA and Ph.D. in United States History from UNC Chapel Hill. She is a published author of Bertha Maxwell-Roddey, a Modern-Day Race Woman and the Power of Black Leadership, (University Press of Florida, 2022) and several historical works, including Reading, Writing, and Segregation: a Century of Black Women Teachers in Nashville, published by the University of Illinois Press (2008).
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Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13093/scua:34327
System Control No.
WG-RA0018
Subject (Person)
Ramsey, Sonya Yvette
Subject (Corporate)
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Type
Moving image
Format
spoken word
Oral histories
Interviews
Language
English
Usage Statement
This item is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)
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Oral History Collections > Women's and Gender Studies 40th Anniversary
Internet Mime Type
video/mp4
Reproduction Note
MP4 access copy created on ingest from MKV. MP4 interview originally recorded on Zoom, 2024-03-08
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J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

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