Oral history interview with Margaret C. Snyder, 2002.

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Oral history interview with Margaret C. Snyder, 2002.

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Born in Syracuse, New York; description of childhood, family, and influences. Candid description of early influences of inequality for women in the workplace, social justice, and economic justice. High school volunteer work and influence of the thought process of the Young Christian Students (YCS); subsequent education at the College of New Rochelle in New York, founding of the Young Christian Workers in Syracuse; followed by graduate school at Catholic University in Washington.. Effects of the Depression and unemployment in the 1930s; WWII era. Held the title of Dean of Women at Le Moyne College in Syracuse; differentiation between feminists and "professional women." Experience of racial inequality and injustice in Washington led to the formation of her thesis on the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) and interest in the work of Dorothy Day, the Baroness Catherine de Hueck, and the Grail Movement. The Kenya National Union of Teachers and the International Union of Teachers; University of Botswana Lesotho, and Swaziland (UBLS); African-American Institute in New York. Work in Kenya with the global women's movement and Maendeleo Ya Wanawake Organization (MYWO); Commission on the Status of Women (CSW); Women's Africa Committee (WAC);

transcript: 109 p.

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