Persistence in the fight for voting rights: Honoring N.C.’s first female legislator

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Wednesday, 26/08/2020

Lillian Exum Clement was a native of Black Mountain and the first female legislator in the Southeast. She was the fourth woman in North Carolina to pass the state bar exam and the first practicing female attorney without male partners. 

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