Blog Post 6: Oral History

I was able to interview my grandmother for this assignment. My grandma moved to the Bronx from Puerto Rico when she was 17 and raised 3 daughters all on her own. When I think of women liberation, I think of her and her strength and independence of doing that. Although many women raise children on their own, it was not as common back in the day and there was not as much support as there is now. My grandmother said the women’s liberation movement influenced her to raise her daughters to have goals for themselves beyond becoming a mother. She wanted all of them to attend university and all of them to obtain careers and establish themselves. My grandmother always said she was for feminism and that there was no better time to raise her kids when all this reform was happening.

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