Title |
Michele Parish, Salt Lake City: an interview by E. L. Cooley |
Alternative Title |
No.397 Michele Parish |
Creator |
Parish, Michele, 1950- |
Contributor |
Cooley, Everett L.; University of Utah. American West Center |
Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
Date |
1992-11-30; 1992-12-07 |
Collection Number and Name |
ACCN 0814 Everett L. Cooley Oral History Project |
Finding Aid |
https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv48007 |
Access Rights |
I acknowledge and agree that all information I obtain as a result of accessing any oral history provided by the University of Utah's Marriott Library shall be used only for historical or scholarly or academic research purposes, and not for commercial purposes. I understand that any other use of the materials is not authorized by the University of Utah and may exceed the scope of permission granted to the University of Utah by the interviewer or interviewee. I may request permission for other uses, in writing to Special Collections at the Marriott Library, which the University of Utah may choose grant, in its sole discretion. I agree to defend, indemnify and hold the University of Utah and its Marriott Library harmless for and against any actions or claims that relate to my improper use of materials provided by the University of Utah. |
Date Digital |
2014-06-04 |
Spatial Coverage |
Sandy, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5781061/ ; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5780993/ |
Subject |
Parish, Michele, 1950- --Interviews; Methodists--Utah--Biography; Spouses of clergy--Biography; American Civil Liberties Union--Utah--History; Civil rights workers--Utah--Biography |
Keywords |
ACLU; Ministers' Wives |
Description |
Transcript (137 pages) of interview(s) by Everett L. Cooley with Michele Parish, outgoing executive director of the ACLU in Utah, on November 30 and December 7, 1992. Includes a copy of Parish's curriculum vita |
Abstract |
Michele Parish (b. 1950) recalls growing up in Iowa, her education at Cornell College in Iowa, the University of Iowa, graduate work in theology at Claremont College in California, her marriage to fellow graduate student and later Methodist minister Wesley Pixler, and their coming to Utah in 1987. She discusses being hired by the ACLU where she became executive director, 1989-1992 and the issues she worked on most notably school prayer, abortion, and prison reform. Interviewer: Everett L. Cooley |
Type |
Text; Sound |
Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
Format |
application/pdf |
Language |
eng |
Rights |
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Scanning Technician |
Matt Wilkinson |
Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro X for CONTENTdm display |
ARK |
ark:/87278/s63v11d7 |
Topic |
Methodists; Spouses of clergy; American Civil Liberties Union; Civil rights workers--Biography |
Setname |
uum_elc |
ID |
792160 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s63v11d7 |