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{SPEAKER name="Faith Ringgold"}
—had to give it a kind of style that she wanted.

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Now here she is, she's holding another hat that I remember and I liked a lot. And uh, that was a wide hat, and she had plumage which she'd put on that one.

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Um, here she is sitting, uh, in the middle of the street on 7th Avenue after church.

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Uh, we had to go to church every Sunday and, uh — rain or shine — we had to go to Sunday school and then we had to stay for the services. Our church was Adam Clayton Powell's Abyssinia Baptist Church in New York.

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And here mother and I are — now this has to be, this is the '40s too — because I'm a teenager here and um, mother and I are on a boat ride, which was something, another fun thing we used to do together.

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Now, we're going— this is the '50s. This is the late '40s, early '50s. I am getting older, I'm the youngest of three children, and um,

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mother has been working, and she has been sewing, she's been creating fashions, getting a reputation for being a designer. And she is, um, very eager to pursue her profession.

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She, um, is still a wonderful mother, but she's now moving into another role. The role of fashion designer and professional woman.

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Uh, I remember when she started taking these pictures which reminded me of the '20s, you know. Uh, very dramatic poses of her staring off into space.
Uh, these things used to embarrass me, you know [[laughs]].