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Interview With Rosetta Daylie, Sarah Bonkowski
Interview With Rosetta Daylie, Sarah Bonkowski
Chicago Anti-Apartheid Movement
Length: 71 minutes
Oral history interview of Rosetta Daylie by Sarah Bonkowski
Rosetta Daylie begins by recounting her childhood on the South Side of Chicago, raised by a politically active family. She recalls her initial work in food service at the Illinois Visually Handicapped Institution. She explains how she was working for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), a trade union of public employees, when she learned about the anti-Apartheid movement and the Illinois Labor Network Against Apartheid (ILLNAA. She describes her work with ILLNAA and the Coalition of Black Trade Labor Unionists, the Shell boycott …
Interview With Kathy Devine, Deseree Zimmerman
Interview With Kathy Devine, Deseree Zimmerman
Chicago Anti-Apartheid Movement
Length: 112 minutes
Oral history interview of Kathy Devine by Deseree Zimmerman
In this interview, Kathleen Devine recounts her political interests and activist work in the anti-Apartheid movement. She begins with recounting her childhood in Chicago and how she first became aware of the political and social realities of the day, with the assassination of JFK and witnessing the Civil Rights Movement. She discusses her time at St. Louis University, George Washington University, and how she came to work for the Department of Treasury. She explains how, when she returned to Chicago, she learned of the anti-Apartheid movement through the …
Interview With Rachel Rubin, Brandi Schaeffer
Interview With Rachel Rubin, Brandi Schaeffer
Chicago Anti-Apartheid Movement
Length: 88 minutes
Oral history interview of Rachel Rubin by Brandi Schaeffer
Dr. Rubin begins by recalling her childhood in Chicago, raised with her twin brother and younger sister, in an ethnically diverse north side neighborhood. She explains how she became involved in activism work at the University of Illinois as part of a Campus program that helped her learn more about activism, discussing topics like Marxism and socialism. She mentions her involvement in the campus protests demanding the university divest from the South Africa. She describes joining CIDSA (Committee for Illinois Divestment in South Africa), later known as CCISSA …