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1946 National Mother of the Year
Emma Clement, Kentucky
In 1946 the war was over and everyone was concerned with “building a post war world.” When idealism jostled with disillusionment and the return of servicemen and outlining of the United Nations brought hope to the disturbed nation, it was the right time for Emma Clarissa Clement to be selected as the American Mother of 1946.
Mrs. Clement was a church woman and civic leader, a woman of education and refinement.
Emma Clement was an alert and active 71 year old, living in Kentucky, when selected. Her grandfather had been a runaway slave who found refuge in Rhode Island and raised his family there.
Emma was born in Providence.
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She went South to college, Livingstone College in Salisbury, North Carolina, largest school of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. It was at Livingstone that Emma met George Clinton Clement, born and raised in the South and studying for the ministry.
They were married on graduatio