Lucy Henighan attended Oberlin College in the 1960s, and there she learned about the civil rights movement and took part in an exchange program at Tougaloo College in Mississippi. After college she moved to eastern Kentucky to teach at the Pine Mountain Settlement School. In the 1970s and 1980s she worked on various community projects and was on staff at the Highlander Research and Education Center. Here she discusses, among other topics, her encounters with the civil rights movement, communal living in Nashville, TN, her involvement in a consciousness-raising group, and working on childcare and Women’s issues at the Highlander Research and Education Center.