Interview with Mabel Pollitzer
Interviewer
Constance Myers
Files
Abstract
IN PROCESSING
Teacher, civic worker, suffragette from Charleston, and sister of Carrie T. Pollitzer (1881-1974), Mabel Pollitzer (1885-1979) recollects her work as a teacher for fifty years at Memminger High School, her participation on library and museum boards, her and her sister’s involvement and participation in the Women Suffrage Movement and the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), and memories of Alice Paul and other suffrage leaders. She also discusses her childhood, efforts to pass legislation for construction of a library in Charleston, Sue Frost and the Charleston Split.
Publication Date
9-5-1973
Unique Identifier
OH 031
Format
5 Cassettes
Length
7 hours, 30 minutes
Restrictions
This interview is not open for use.
Series
Politics
Disciplines
Oral History
Keywords
Women's Suffrage Movement, ERA, Charleston Library, Sue Frost, Charleston Split
Recommended Citation
Pollitzer, Mabel, "Interview with Mabel Pollitzer" (1973). Winthrop University Oral History Program. OH 031.
https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/oralhistoryprogram/195
LC Subject Headings
Pollitzer, Mabel, 1885-1979 -- Childhood and youth, Suffragists -- South Carolina -- Charleston, Women -- Suffrage, Memminger Normal School -- Faculty, Biology teachers -- South Carolina -- Charleston, Libraries -- South Carolina -- Charleston, Frost, Susan Pringle, Paul, Alice, 1885-1977, Equal Rights Advocates
Notes
Additional interview dates are September 19, 1973 and June 16, 1974.