Importance of industrial working women as the YWCA splintered along class lines
Working-class women developed separate organizations from the middle-class management. Anderson reminisces that the industrial women had been the vanguard of the women's movement.
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Oral History Interview with Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson, November 5, 1974. Interview G-0005. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) in the Southern Oral History Program Collection, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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- MARY FREDERICKSON:
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Well, were you in favor of separating industrial girls. . . . Having a
separate department or club for industrial girls.
- ELEANOR COPENHAVER ANDERSON:
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Oh, I certainly was. I may have been wrong, but. . . yes.
- STILLE:
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See, the business girls were at that time
beginning to have big business girls clubs and
all.
- ELEANOR COPENHAVER ANDERSON:
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Very upper class and conservative. But that's all changed. The industrial
was the real movement, there's no doubt about that.
- MARY FREDERICKSON:
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You were actually setting up industrial clubs, weren't you?
- ELEANOR COPENHAVER ANDERSON:
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Yes, I guess....
