THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Laura “Tibbie” Roberts
June 2, 1914 – May 25, 2013
“It is my concern that all individuals have the opportunity to reach their God-given potential. I believe the ERA will help accomplish this.”
Life-long women’s rights activist. A pioneer for women in North Carolina’s banking industry in the 1930s and coordinated the N.C. Council of Churches’ statewide campaign to pass the Equal Rights Amendment in the early 1970s. Fought hard for the rights of women and children through the continuation of the WIC program, the federal feeding program for Women, Infants and Children. An integral part of forming Helpline, Rape Crisis and the Carteret County Domestic Violence Program.
More About Tibbie:
- Obituary
- “Tibbie Roberts: Free as the marsh ponies,” interview by David Cecelski, January 2007.
- A Simple Matter of Justice, a 1978 television special about the National Women’s Conference, held in Houston from November 18 to 21, 1977. Actress Jean Stapleton narrates the program and talks with four delegates from states which had not yet ratified the resolution: Keller Bumgardner of South Carolina, Carole Sheahan of Florida, Roberta Johnson of Illinois, and Laura ‘Tibbie’ Roberts of North Carolina.
- Laura “Tibbie” Roberts papers, Duke University Libraries
