This is how I think I came to the women's movement because I had been …

This is how I think I came to the women's movement because I had been brought up to fight for the rights of black people and Negroes—colored as we were called then.

Josephine Clement Carolinian

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Oral history interview with Kathryn Nasstrom, Durham, July 13 and August 3, 1989, Interview C-0074, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

form: interview
work: Oral History Interview with Josephine Clement
year: 1989

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