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Interview With Curtis Black, Jeremy Alexander Cairns
Interview With Curtis Black, Jeremy Alexander Cairns
Chicago Anti-Apartheid Movement
Length: 77 minutes
Oral history interview of Curtis Black by Jeremy Alexander Cairns
In his interview, Curtis Black details his childhood and early college years at the University of Chicago. He explains how he became involved in the anti-apartheid movement in 1979 while covering divestment for the Chicago Maroon and, soon after, joining the Action Committee on South Africa, a student organization that campaigned to get the University of Chicago to divest from stock of corporations doing business in South Africa. He notes an especially significant piece he wrote in 1985, interviewing Prexy Nesbitt, that gave a comprehensive view of …
Interview With Josephine Wyatt, Suzanne Miller
Interview With Josephine Wyatt, Suzanne Miller
Chicago Anti-Apartheid Movement
Length: 73 minutes
Oral history interview of Josephine Wyatt by Suzanne Miller
In her interview, Ms. Wyatt recalls her childhood on her family’s farm in Georgia, her family’s church, and their community. She explains how she and her husband relocated to Chicago for work, where she started taking classes at the local colleges. She tells of how she began working for Chicago Child Care after her divorce, first as a secretary and then as an office manager. She recalls how she deeply identified with the struggles in Apartheid South Africa, after growing up in Jim Crow Georgia and witnessing the …
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 …
Interview With Clarice Durham, Lauren Ashley Alexander
Interview With Clarice Durham, Lauren Ashley Alexander
Chicago Anti-Apartheid Movement
Length: 95 minutes
Oral history interview of Clarice Durham by Lauren Ashley Alexander
Clarice Durham recalls her childhood and recounts her work with the Illinois NAACP, The National Anti-Imperialist Movement in Solidarity with African Liberation (NAIMSAL), and as co-chair of the National Alliance Against Racial and Political Oppression. She campaigned for justice in the Scottsboro Boys case in 1931, attended the founding convention of the Progressive Party in 1948, and participated in the March on Washington in 1963. As Durham recaps her trip to South Africa, she recalls the change it had on her and her views of the movement. …
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 …
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 …
Interview With Jean Kracher, Michael Lee Johnson
Interview With Jean Kracher, Michael Lee Johnson
Chicago Anti-Apartheid Movement
Length: 97 minutes
Oral history interview of Jean Kracher by Michael Lee Johnson
Ms. Kracher explains how she first became involved in the anti-Apartheid movement after moving to New York where she was initially involved a number of different social justice causes. She mentions her arrest after chaining herself to the South African consulate door during a protest. She explains how most of her activism work largely revolved around the HIV/AIDS crisis in the 1980s and the impact that some policies had on gay communities. She mentions how she started an organization called CFAR (Chicago For AIDS Rights), later renamed …