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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 …
Interview With Elizabeth Benson, Micah Ariel James
Interview With Elizabeth Benson, Micah Ariel James
Chicago Anti-Apartheid Movement
Length: 102 minutes
Oral history interview of Elizabeth Benson by Micah Ariel James
Ms. Benson begins by recalling her early years, her childhood in Kansas City and Chicago, and the death of her father. She outlines her educational and career path, earning a degree in French at the University of Chicago and working a number of different jobs as a teacher, working for the federal government, for the state government departments, and as a secretary for a church. She mentions her time living in France, Germany, and Washington State, before returning to Chicago. Her activism began with Citizens Alert, who …