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I think we've been kind enough for a hundred years and I think it's time now to just sue the federal government and take all this money that we spent on federal recognition and put it in law suits if nothing more than to document the ineffectiveness and the inefficiency and the unwillingness of the federal government to face up to its responsibilities.
Ruth Dial Woods Carolinian
Source
Interview with Anne Mitchell Coe and Laura Moore, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, June 12, 1992; Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007), Interview L-0078, Documenting the American South, UNC-Chapel Hill
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- Oral History Interview with Ruth Dial Woods, Interview L-0078
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- 1992
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