Women's Forum Oral History Collection Interview Index

Becky Hurley Mock was born September 25, 1949 in Burlington, North Carolina. Her father worked in a textile mill. While Mock was growing up, her mother provided childcare for the other mill workers, and eventually went back to school to become a nurse. Mock could not afford to go to college, and attended a local technical school to be trained in medical secretary work. She worked in various clerical jobs until she developed more skills in political advocacy and organizing. Mock became involved in the ERA movement in 1982, when fellow members of her church invited her to a meeting to learn about the ERA. She worked with some of the other women at that meeting to establish the Alamance Women’s Political Caucus, and the group participated in the Equal Rights March in Raleigh in July 1982. During the movement, she helped organize meetings, send out newsletters, and take minutes for different organizations dedicated to the cause. She has been an active member of many organizations throughout her life, including the NAACP, NC Women United, a local chapter of the Mental Health Association, and the North Carolina Council for Women. She was a founder and Program Director for the Women’s Resource Center in Alamance County, and also helped organize the Women’s Agenda Assembly. She has also been a board member and the President of the X-linked Hypophosphatemia Network, an organization dedicated to the awareness of X-linked Hypophosphatemia, a rare metabolic disease which affects Mock and other members of her family. At the time of the interview, Mock had been married for 37 years and had two children.