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Interview no. | G-0015 |
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 | January 22, 1978 |
Interviewee | Clark, Adele, 1882-1983. |
Interviewee occupation | Women's rights activists |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Friedman, Belinda. |
Abstract | Adele Clark, a noted artist in Richmond, Virginia involved in many movements for social reform, was born September 27, 1882. Beginning with her early childhood in New Orleans, Louisiana, Clark recalls her relationships with her family that inspired her desire to join different social reform movements. In her early childhood her grandmother was very interested in books written by women authors. Clark describes herself as "a feminist from childhood" and she was always curious as to why boys had more freedom of choice than girls did. She received strong familial support to pursue her passion for art. Studying art was at the forefront of her life; even after she was hired as a stenographer, she continued to take art classes. The Chase School in New York, later changed to the New York School of Art, offered her a scholarship, and she studied there under the lead art instructors in New York. After attending art school, she returned to Richmond and opened an art studio with Nora Houston. Shortly after, she worked to restore the Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts of the United States of America, the first art academy in the United States, which was located in Richmond. She served on the state of Virginia's art commission, deciding which works of art the state would collect. Her initial step into suffrage took place in 1900 when she signed a petition for women to vote. After taking a job in the clerical department of an insurance company, she discovered cases of child labor in insurance claims. She then went on to work with the Richmond Chamber of Commerce to pass a bill that abolished child labor. In the summer of 1909, the Equal Suffrage League was organized. Clark was a secretary of the board when the League first organized, then went on to become a state officer. |
Citation | Interview with Adele Clark by Belinda Friedman, 22 January 1978 G-0015, 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. | G0015_Audio |