Prominent africanamerican women. The daughter of a teacher and reporter, she discusses her early interest in the law and her experience as the first africanamerican woman to graduate from the university of virginia law school. This 2000 interview is approximately 80 minutes and was conducted by julian bond. Julian bond welcome back to the university of virginia. This is an exploration in leadership and i like to start with your earliest years. ,t is sometimes for people difficult for them to be introspective. But you can from a household with a strong mother and a small father, and a strong what effect they have on you . There were three of us children. It was a party at the dinner table. They sayd father opposites attract. But that is not what happened there. Night,dinner table each one of us, parents included, would have to defend ourselves. We would be taken to task by the other four of them. On a subject that happened that day or did not happen. You found yourself trying to sink or