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Interview With Stan Willis, Richard Hughey
Interview With Stan Willis, Richard Hughey
Chicago Anti-Apartheid Movement
Length: 135 minutes
Oral history interview of Stan Willis by Richard Hughey
Mr. Willis begins by recounting his early years in Chicago with his family and his gang activity in high school. He briefly describes his years in the Air Force and his work as a bus driver before enrolling at Crane College. Willis describes his activism work from his college years in detail, creating the Black History Club and later running for and winning student body president, during which time he helped organize strikes against injustices around the country. He mentions how he had a hand in naming the …
Interview With Alice Palmer, Katherine Elizabeth Mcauliff
Interview With Alice Palmer, Katherine Elizabeth Mcauliff
Chicago Anti-Apartheid Movement
Length: 107 minutes
Oral history interview of Alice Palmer by Katherine Elizabeth McAuliff
As a youth, Palmer mentions, she encountered news of South African Apartheid through a magazine to which her grandparents subscribed, outlining methods of classifying race in the country, particularly through hair texture. In college, Palmer mentions a deepened awareness of the issues in South Africa, which propelled her student activism during the boycott against the Krugerrand. Palmer also describes her involvement in organizing the Free South Africa Movement with other Chicago-based activists. She describes the demonstrations between November 1984 and March 1985 in front of the South …