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Interview With Otis Cunningham, Danny Fenster
Interview With Otis Cunningham, Danny Fenster
Chicago Anti-Apartheid Movement
Length: 98 minutes
Oral history interview of Otis Cunningham by Danny Fenster
Mr. Cunningham begins by explaining what it was like growing up amidst the Civil Rights Movement in Chicago, witnessing the reactions to the assassinations of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. He explains how he first became involved in activism for African liberation movements when he joined the African-American Solidarity Committee where he served on the editorial board of their journal and he elaborates on the work they did. He recalls the social gatherings that sprung up through the movement. He explains the complicated history and relationships …