|
Excerpt #8—Lt. Governor
Thelma Stovall
Taped 3/3/76, Interviewer,
BJ Flynn
About 60 sec.
Courtesy of the Oral History
Center, University Archives and Records Center, University of Louisville
Interviewer:
Did you find, have you, at any stage, through your years in the
house, did you ever feel a handicap because you are a woman?
Stovall:
Only, really, two-two times.
One of them is, I belonged to a committee—back in those days we
did not have regular committee meetings. . .
I was on the Labor Committee in the House, where they met in the
men’s restroom. . . . And—this sounds ridiculous, but it’s the truth—they
used to go in the men’s restroom and they’d say “Thelma, you come
out and stay—come over here and just stand outside.”
So every so often they’d open the door and say “How do you
want to vote” or “Have you got anything to day about this one?”
Now this was a ridiculous situation, but this is the way it was.
(Courtesy of the Kentucky Department for Libraries and
Archives)
|
