Clip from an interview with National Welfare Rights Organization member Guida West, in which she describes the national significance of struggles for welfare rights. Dr. West explains how poor African American women led these struggles "to change a system that was predominantly used by white women also." The fight for welfare rights in Newark was part of a national movement to reform and improve welfare programs that discriminated against women of color and limited upward economic mobility.
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Courtesy of the Henry Hampton Collection, Washington University Libraries
