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Interview no. | G-0014-1 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | G.1. Southern Women: Individual Biographies |
Project description | Interviews, 1964-1991 (bulk 1970s), focusing on women's participation in movements for social change. Many deal with southern women active in reform movements between the 1910s women's suffrage movement and the 1960s feminist movement and explore the interaction between the private lives and public activities of women representing various social classes and races. Interviewees include women involved in labor and workers' education movements; African American and white women active in the civil rights movement; and women who, in addition to their contributions to these reform movements, also pursued professional careers. |
Date | July 12, 1964 |
Interviewee | Clark, Adele, 1882-1983. |
Interviewee occupation | Women's rights activists |
Interviewee DOB | 1882 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Broadfoot, Winston. |
Abstract | Adele Clark, native southerner and suffragist, worked with the Virginia League of Women Voters and the National League of Women Voters beginning in the 1910s. She describes the evolution of the women’s suffrage movement from the state to the federal level, which ultimately resulted in the Nineteenth Amendment. Between joining the organizations and the passage of equal suffrage, Clark organized women together to promote suffrage in Virginia and in other states. She traveled through the American Southwest with the National League to help local organizations fight for suffrage. She also attended the 1912, 1924, and 1928 Democratic Conventions. At the 1912 Convention in Baltimore, the party rejected the equal-suffrage plank. In retrospect, she found the 1924 Convention in New York City to be the most striking, because the party failed to add a child-labor amendment to the Constitution to their platform. |
Citation | Interview with Adele Clark by Winston Broadfoot, 12 July 1964 G-0014-1, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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Interview no. | G-0014-1 |