Item Information
Title
Eva Clayton
Source
LaVerne McCain Gill. African American Women in Congress: Forming and Transforming History. New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press, 1997. North Carolina Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, UNC-CH
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http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
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Identifier
https://exhibits.lib.unc.edu/items/show/6520
Text
Eva McPherson Clayton
The First Woman to Chair a Democratic Freshman Class
I think there is a higher expectation of us as Afro-American women because there have been so few of us. And once we are here in some mass, then they will see us as a group and we will not have to be just a Barbara Jordan or just a Shirley Chisholm, but we would be looked upon as individuals…So, I think the expectation is, in my judgment, a little too high.
The First Woman to Chair a Democratic Freshman Class
I think there is a higher expectation of us as Afro-American women because there have been so few of us. And once we are here in some mass, then they will see us as a group and we will not have to be just a Barbara Jordan or just a Shirley Chisholm, but we would be looked upon as individuals…So, I think the expectation is, in my judgment, a little too high.