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Interview With Cheryl Johnson-Odim, Carrie Armbruster
Interview With Cheryl Johnson-Odim, Carrie Armbruster
Chicago Anti-Apartheid Movement
Length: 57 minutes
Oral history interview of Cheryl Johnson-Odim by Carrie Armbruster
Johnson-Odim describes her introduction to South African Apartheid in junior high school through her music teacher, S. Carol Buchanan, who was good friends with the musical director for Harry Belafonte. After auditioning and being chosen to sing on his album, “The Streets I’ve Walked,” Belafonte took Johnson and the other singers to watch South African Boot Dancers, who later went to teach the students about the apartheid regime in South Africa. She describes how her involvement in the civil rights of African Americans and the rights of women …