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This file appears in: Women in History DowntownDC Callbox Tour: Josephine Butler
Julius Hobson Papers, Washingtoniana Division, D.C. Public Library
This file appears in: Women in History DowntownDC Callbox Tour: Josephine Butler
Women in History DowntownDC Callbox Tour: Josephine Butler
Josephine Butler was born in 1920 to parents who were sharecroppers on a tobacco farm in the Brandywine area of Prince George’s County, Maryland. At age 14 she moved to D.C., lied about her age, and got a job in a laundry. A natural activist and…