BY BILL WYATT
Martinsville Bulletin
Mary Sue Terry spoke on Sunday to a group at the Martinsville-Henry County Heritage Center and Museum about stereotypes, gender disparity, the past and her concern for the future.
âIf a UFO came and stayed long enough to observe our situation, one gender has most of the power and the majority is second-class,â Terry said. âThere is something wrong with this picture.â
There is an exhibit currently on display at center titled âAgents of Change: Female Activism in Virginia.â
To highlight the exhibit, which is being held in conjunction with the Womenâs Suffrage Centennial, Sundayâs speaker was the first woman ever elected to statewide office in Virginia, only the second woman in the United States to serve as a state attorney general, the first elected official in the history of Virginia to receive more than 1 million votes â and she was born in Martinsville.