Record #:

16592

Author(s):

Leggett, Carroll

Abstract:

Although Jessie Rae Scott married into North Carolina's most prominent political family when she married Gov. Robert W. Scott, this Alamance County mill village girl worked her way through Woman's College, now UNC-Greensboro. She also came within a handful of votes of winning the Democratic nomination for State Labor Commissioner and was a key player in Jimmy Carter's North Carolina presidential campaign. She was a strong advocate for women's rights and fought in vain to get the Equal Rights Amendment adopted in North Carolina.

Source:

Metro Magazine (NoCar F 264 R1 M48), Vol. 12 Issue 1, Mar 2011, p?

Subject(s):

Scott, Robert Walter, 1929-2009