Durr discusses work and family
As the poll tax committee changed from a division of the Southern Conference to a nationally oriented organization, Durr devoted increasing amounts of energy to the cause, affecting the amount of time she spent with her children.
Citing this Excerpt
Oral History Interview with Virginia Foster Durr, March 13, 14, 15, 1975. Interview G-0023-2. 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.
Full Text of the Excerpt
- SUE THRASHER:
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Did you do much speaking, then? Did you travel and speak?
- VIRGINIA FOSTER DURR:
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Well, I had a family by that time, you know, a pretty large family. I did some speaking, but not a whole lot. I did some, but I used to raise money a lot. Oh, Lord, what did I do? I lobbied and I raised money and I went to meetings and I just worked and worked. It became a kind of . . .Cliff thought that it became a sort of an obsession with me. The children would say, "Oh, Poll Tax!" I was just reading Bleak House, about Mrs. Jellaby, you know, and her African project. I often
wonder if my children didn't feel the same way. They hated it so.
