Callan Showers : Interview for Stanford Community Women's March Oral History Project
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
Callan Showers (2019 BA American Studies) recounts her experience attending the Women’s March in Washington, DC. She recalls feeling distraught and angry following the election and her excitement when she and other Stanford community members, with the support of professors Allyson Hobbs and Estelle Freedman, began organizing to attend the march in Washington DC.
Showers describes her previous volunteer experiences working in Minnesota politics and talks with gravitas about how important it was to her to have travelled to the march with her mother. While Showers had hoped to meet up with the group of Stanford students that was attending, she was unable to find them due the huge crowds. She recalls the odd experience of being alone at the march, but also feeling incredibly supported by her fellow marchers. She describes meaningful signs she saw and chants she heard and discusses the impact of the march on her own political activism, including her involvement with the Stanford Women’s Action Network (SWAN).
Description
Type of resource | moving image, text, sound recording-nonmusical |
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Extent | 1 video file; 1 audio file; 1 text file |
Place | Stanford (Calif.) |
Publisher | Stanford Historical Society |
Date created | April 4, 2017 |
Language | English |
Digital origin | born digital |
Creators/Contributors
Interviewee | Showers, Callan | |
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Creator | Showers, Callan | |
Interviewer | Sridharan, Shriya | |
Publisher | Stanford Historical Society |
Subjects
Subject | Women's March on Washington (2017) |
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Subject | Women's rights > United States |
Subject | Protest Movements > United States |
Genre | Interview |
Bibliographic information
Transcript |
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Finding Aid | |
Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/hd474pv8098 |
Location | SC1356 |
Repository | Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives |
Access conditions
- Use and reproduction
- The materials are open for research use and may be used freely for non-commercial purposes with an attribution. For commercial permission requests, please contact the Stanford University Archives (universityarchives@stanford.edu).
- Copyright
- Copyright © The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved.
Collection
Stanford Community Women's March Collection, 2016
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