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Excerpt from Oral History Interview with Eulalie Salley, September 15, 1973. Interview G-0054. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) See Entire Interview >>

Finding and making connections

Salley found ways to link her business acquaintances and her activist interests so that she broadened her base of connections for both pursuits.

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Oral History Interview with Eulalie Salley, September 15, 1973. Interview G-0054. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) in the Southern Oral History Program Collection, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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EULALIE SALLEY:
I'll tell you where I had it on the people in Aiken. Most of my clients were the big rich northern "winter colony" people. I had seven very wealthy northern clients, like Mrs. Winthrop Rutherfurd and Mrs. Peter Roberts. They are . . . They would speak to their friends for me. I remember Mrs. Munsell, the one who was in Columbia and was a suffragistwas a cousin of Mrs. Joseph Leiter, a very wealthy woman. She came down here and I was introduced to Mrs. Leiter. It was through those people that I met the other people, other wealthy people, that the rest of these Aiken realtors never had a chance to meet.
CONSTANCE MYERS:
Isn't that marvellous. The suffrage movement inspired you to go into business and then the suffrage movement provided you with leads that set you off.
EULALIE SALLEY:
Yes, yes, yes. That was it.
CONSTANCE MYERS:
Did your business connections then acquaint you with people in political life on the state level? Is this how you came to know the politicians?
EULALIE SALLEY:
Yes. Then you see, I lobbied in Columbia. I'd go up there and stay with Lottie Hammond and Clara Buchanan--they were my cousins, Lottie and Clara. We would lobby in the state house.
CONSTANCE MYERS:
This was for the suffrage amendment, wasn't it?
EULALIE SALLEY:
Yes.
CONSTANCE MYERS:
Then it was through suffrage rather than business that you came to know the politicians. Was it?
EULALIE SALLEY:
Yes, it was through suffrage that I knew the politicians.