Guion Griffis Johnson:
I remember the stories that would come over the radio about how terrible it was for a mother to continue to work. She was needed during the war, and it was patriotic...

Interviewer:
Whereas five years before, they had been saying that it was patriotic to work.

Guion Griffis Johnson:
Yes. That's true. It was patriotic for her to work, but now the war is over, our men are coming back and we need to give them employment and it's patriotic now for a woman to leave her job and turn it over to our war veterans.

- Guion Griffis Johnson, historian and sociologist at UNC's Institute for Research in Social Science

Interview with Guion Griffis Johnson by Mary Fredrickson, May 17, 1974, Interview G-0029-2, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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