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individual. She never felt that she had to join a group, or be identified with the group. We were both life members of the NAACP, but that was not in terms of seeking any kind of leadership role or anything of this sort. We were life members of the NAACP supportively. Up until rather recently, and before her death, we respected the leadership. When we no longer respected the leadership, we said we no longer respected the leadership. I don't recall any area in which she was a member of a group dealing with the kind of problems that you mentioned--with stress--in general. Although she could understand when an individual was having problems. If she were a clinician (which she wasn't; she headed a child guidance clinic, but she was not a therapist), I can see what her approach would be if she were a therapist. Her approach would be in terms of getting this individual to deal with her specific problems as an individual, rather than--I was going to say hiding behind, or being incorporated into the general group problems. You see, I have a lot of respect for this woman. She was a person, an individual, and this was important to her. That does not mean that she didn't see injustices. But she didn't feel that injustices should interfere with the right and responsibility of the individual to cope with those injustices as effectively as that person could.

You mention that she certainly didn't join the feminist movement as such.

No. I was more of a feminist than she was.