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41188
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This is a companion article to Emma Way’s “Who Rules this City,” also featured in this issue. In her article, Ethridge expounds on the political influence that women such as Vi Lyles have had on Charlotte’s past and present history.
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North Carolina--politicians--women; Politics--North Carolina--women--"pink wave" ; Levine Museum (Charlotte) ; Bennett College (Greensboro); Inventors--Charlotte--Beulah Louise Henry ; Politicians--women--Vi Lyles; Levine Museum--see also Levine Museum of the New South; Politicians--North Carolina--black women; Historically black women's colleges--North Carolina--Bennett College
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42901
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in 1992, Eva M. Clayton made history when she became the first Black woman in North Carolina to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. She first ran for the U.S. House in 1968. After leaving Congress in 2003, she accepted a post in Rome with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
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