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Women in modern politics represent progressive successes in the fight for gender equality since the brave rebels and pioneers of the suffrage movement. In the 21st Century, much attention is given to women politicians at the national level, leaving women politicians at the local and regional level overlooked and under documented. This project is the first attempt to document women politicians on a local and regional level through oral history interviews with women in the Triad area of North carolina who either currently hold or have held in the past elected office. The interviewees were selected from across party lines. Interviews focused on each woman's personal and political history, allowing us to document and make available to researchers the women's experiences in their own [...] Read more
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