- Collection:
- Women's Marches 2017 Collection
- Title:
- Wendy Yandle-Smith oral history interview, 2017-03-26
- Creator:
- Yandle-Smith, Wendy
- Contributor to Resource:
- Carson, Karen
- Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia State University Library
- Date of Original:
- 2017-03-26
- Subject:
- Protest movements
- People:
- Trump, Donald, 1946-
- Location:
- United States, District of Columbia, Washington, 38.89511, -77.03637
- Medium:
- oral histories (document genres)
interviews - Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- Wendy Yandle-Smith is a sixty-two-year-old retired pediatric registered nurse who practiced in New York, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. In 2012 she and her husband Calvin Smith moved from Maryland, where he was a federal employee at the National Security Agency, to the northwest Georgia mountains in order to be near his elderly mother. Yandle-Smith and her husband have four daughters and three grandsons whom they visit frequently. Having lived in such diverse areas, Yandle-Smith experienced some culture shock moving to north Georgia, but she and her husband have found some like-minded friends and are active in Appalachian indivisible and the Democratic Party. On January 21, 2017, millions of people worldwide took part in marches to protest the inauguration of Donald Trump as the President of the United States. The first protest, which took place in Washington, D.C., was known as the Women's March on Washington and was intended as a response to anti-woman rhetoric and beliefs that were espoused during Trump's campaign. While women's and reproductive rights were at the forefront of marchers' concerns, many also protested the racist, anti-immigrant, anti-science, and other controversial sentiments expressed by the incoming Trump administration.
In this interview, Wendy Yandle-Smith talks about why she decided to attend the Women's March on Washington with her husband and daughter. She discusses their experience at the march, including the friendliness of the crowd, various signs and chants, and their activities in Washington before and after the march. Yandle-Smith also talks about continuing to support the mission of the march after she returned to Georgia by joining local activist groups. She discusses her hopes and fears for the future, including her desire for a return to normalcy and her concern for immigrants. - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/marches/id/382
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. In addition, no permission is required from the rights-holder(s) for educational uses. For other uses, you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Yandle-Smith, Wendy, interviewed by Karen Carson, March 26, 2017, Women's Marches Oral History Project, Archives for Research on Women and Gender. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
- Extent:
- 00:57:15
- Original Collection:
- Archives for Research on Women and Gender
Women's Marches Oral History Project
http://research.library.gsu.edu/c.php?g=620340 - Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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