Clemmie Shuck Barry

Sound recording of Lucille Kendall’s interviews with Clemmie Shuck Barry documenting Barry’s activities as an organizer for the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (ACWA) in the 1930s, her involvement in the Communist Party in San Francisco in the late 1930s and 1940s, and her efforts to integrate housing in Marin County, Calif., in the 1950s.




Date of Interview

Interviewer

1977-01-01

Lucille Kendall

Project

Program/Repository

Women in California Collection

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Portrait of a woman, Clemmie Shuck Barry
Courtesy of the California Historical Society

I think part of it was that I maybe was, it doesn’t feel like I am now, but that I was adventurous.… I was always open to something new and things fell in my path.