In this interview, Nan Orrock talks about the books, music, and people that have influenced her. She also talks about her experience moving to Atlanta in 1964 and 1967 and describes the various jobs she held and activist organizations she participated in, including the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Venceremos Brigade. Later, Orrock discusses how she got involved with The Bird and describes what she did while working there.
Biographical note
Nan Orrock was born November 8,1943, in Abingdon, Virginia. As a child, Orrock was an avid reader and active in her Methodist youth church group. Orrock got her start in politics through the Civil Rights Movement and went on to work for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Atlanta and Mississippi, led a community civil rights project in Virginia’s Black Belt counties, joined women’s empowerment efforts in Atlanta, and helped launch The Great Speckled Bird.
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Citation
Orrock, Nan, interviewed by Andrew Reisinger, July 7, 2017, Great Speckled Bird Oral History Project, Southern Labor Archives. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
