The Women of the Movement
Through oral histories, public conversations, interviews, and community programs, Women of the Movement share the history they witnessed, shaped, and lived. Their voices preserve stories too often left outside the traditional historical record while adding depth and humanity to the stories we think we already know.
They Made History. They’re Still Shaping the Future
Women of the Movement work with universities, scholars, descendants, and community partners to bring lived experience into research, books, articles, exhibits, and other public history projects. Their participation helps ensure that history is not simply written about communities, but developed with the people whose lives created it.
Building Knowledge Together
History as a Guide
Their experiences also reach future healthcare practitioners, policymakers, educators, and other decision-makers. By listening to people who experienced segregation, integration, community organizing, unequal systems, and social change firsthand, emerging leaders gain a deeper understanding of how decisions and institutions affect real people's lives.
Experience That Informs the Future
Their experiences also reach future healthcare practitioners, policymakers, educators, and other decision-makers. By listening to people who experienced segregation, integration, community organizing, unequal systems, and social change firsthand, emerging leaders gain a deeper understanding of how decisions and institutions affect real people's lives.
Beyond Chapel Hill
Women of the Movement travel, learn, and build relationships with descendants and communities whose histories connect with their own. These exchanges create opportunities to compare experiences, preserve shared histories, and strengthen relationships across generations and communities.
Teaching Across Generations
Women of the Movement bring together their expertise as educators, strategists, healthcare practitioners, and community leaders. Drawing on decades of work in education, health, voter participation, organizing, and public policy, they combine their superpowers to give young people a playbook for creating change—grounded in strategy, community building, sisterhood, and the lessons of a movement they helped shape.