Tamar Carroll Oral Histories on Women's Health Action and Mobilization (WHAM!)
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Tamar Carroll is a history professor at Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York. Between 2003 and 2005, while a PhD candidate in history at the University of Michigan, Carroll conducted oral histories with members of Women's Health Action and Mobilization (WHAM!) for her dissertation. The Tamar Carroll Oral Histories on Women's Health Action and Mobilization (WHAM!) document Carroll's work conducting oral histories with members of WHAM! between 2003 and 2005 as part of her dissertation project. The collection consists of audio recordings of individual interviews, and video recordings of group interviews and a WHAM! reunion.
Biographical Note
Tamar Carroll is a history professor at Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York. Between 2003 and 2005, while a PhD candidate in history at the University of Michigan, Carroll conducted oral histories with members of Women's Health Action and Mobilization (WHAM!) for her dissertation. Her dissertation, "Women's Activism, Identity Politics, and Social Change in NYC, 1955-1995", focused on three social movements in New York City between the 1950s and 1990s. One of the movements was the partnership between the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) and WHAM! to improve health care, fight homophobia and misogyny, and to support People with AIDS in the 1980s and 1990s. These interviews were also used as the basis for her book Mobilizing New York: AIDS, Antipoverty, and Feminist Activism (UNC Press, 2015).
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The collection is arranged in alphabetical order by last name of the narrator, with the group events listed at the end of this arrangement.
Scope and Contents
The Tamar Carroll Oral Histories on Women's Health Action and Mobilization (WHAM!) document Carroll's work conducting oral histories with members of WHAM! between 2003 and 2005 as part of her dissertation project. The collection consists of audio recordings of individual interviews, and video recordings of group interviews and a WHAM! reunion. Transcripts for some audio interviews are available by request and one interview is available in transcript form only. The oral histories document the experiences of former members of WHAM!, the work of the organization, and the impact these experiences had on the members. The individual interviews and the group interview focus on what brought people to WHAM!, the ways in which they participated in the group, the aims of WHAM!, direct actions and protests in which the narrators participated, and coalitions formed between WHAM! and other organizations, in particular the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) and the Reproductive Rights Coalition. The video recording of the WHAM! reunion documents an event held at the Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University in 2005. The event included a panel of former WHAM! members, each of whom discusses the topics included in the oral history interviews; an overview of her project by Carroll; and discussion with the audience, most of whom were members of WHAM!.
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Conditions Governing Access
Materials are open without restricitions.
Conditions Governing Use
Any rights (including copyright and related rights to publicity and privacy) held by the narrators were transferred to New York University between 2003 and 2005 by the narrators, with the exception of Matuschka. Permission to publish or reproduce materials in this collection, with the exception of the interview with Matuschka, must be secured from the Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives. Please contact Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, special.collections@nyu.edu, 212-998-2596.
Some interviews have individual use restrictions, noted below.
Preferred Citation
Identification of item, date; Tamar Carroll Oral Histories on Women's Health Action and Mobilization (WHAM!); OH 066; box number; folder number or item identifier; Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by Tamar Carroll in circa 2008. The accession number related to this acession is 2009.092.
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Access DVDs and CDs for audiovisual materials in the collection are available by appointment for reading room viewing and listening only.
Born-Digital Access Policies and Procedures
Advance notice is required for the use of computer records. Original physical digital media is restricted.
An access terminal for born-digital materials in the collection is available by appointment for reading room viewing and listening only. Researchers may view an item's original container and/or carrier, but the physical carriers themselves are not available for use because of preservation concerns.
Appraisal
An interview belonging to "Elizabeth M." from Carroll's Mobilizing New York was accidentally donated with the collection and was deaccessioned. The interview was previously attributed to Elizabeth Meixell pre-processing.
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Processing Information
Some interviews in this collection were described by graduate students in the Fall 2020 session of Advanced Archival Description HIST-GA.2031. The remaining interviews and the collection were described by an archivist in April 2021. The interviews were described after listening to at least 45 minutes of audio per interview; this included the first 20 minutes of each interview, as well as an additional 10-25 minutes throughout the recording.
Optical media was imaged and arranged on local storage. Directories were created for material arranged together intellectually in the collection.
New York University Libraries follow professional standards and best practices when imaging, ingesting, and processing born-digital material in order to maintain the integrity and authenticity of the content.
