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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 Constance Prince, Brett Edward King
Interview With Constance Prince, Brett Edward King
Chicago Anti-Apartheid Movement
Length: 97 minutes
Oral history interview of Constance Prince by Brett Edward King
In her interview, Ms. Prince details her difficult childhood in Florida, her first marriage, the birth of her daughter, and her divorce. She recalls how she completed her degree at Florida State University and moved with her daughter to Chicago to attend Northwestern University. She describes how she first learned of South African apartheid at Northwestern through Prexy Nesbitt. This, she explains, led to her involvement in the anti-apartheid movement: at the urging of Nesbitt and George Schmidt, she wrote a three-piece series outlining the history of …