Dorothy Tracy oral history interview [sound recording], 1996 June 11.

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Dorothy Tracy oral history interview [sound recording], 1996 June 11.

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Tracy discusses her childhood and education in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and recounts that her "mother was very intent on women's rights, that women were just as capable as men." She goes on to talk about her courtship, marriage and early married life with her husband Jack Tracy. During this period, she joined the League of Women Voters, and became politically active. Tracy recounts that when her husband died (in 1963), she became particularly aware of the fact that women needed to be financially responsible for themselves. She goes on to say that as a student at Georgia State University, she was asked to teach a women's financial planning community college-level course. Not surprisingly, her interests in the Women's Movement were focused on women's financial rights, and in particular taxation. Tracy discusses the way the Women's Movement affected her personal life and in particular the lives of her children. She finishes by considering the accomplishments to the Women's Movement: the greatest, she feels, is that women not only have access to professions previously closed to them, but that they also have a greater sense of their own worth.

1 sound cassette.transcript 25 leaves ; 28 cm.

Georgia State University

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