A video produced by Cai Sherley & Sarah Arnold for Otelia Cromwell Day. Part of the Weaving Voices Intergenerational Archives Project.
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Linda Charles, Smith class of 1974 discusses her experiences as part of the largest group of African American students in Smith College and her observations of campus activism. From the Smith College Alumne Oral History Project.
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Sylvia Lewis, Smith class of 1974 was a member of the Black Students Alliance and was part of a very active student group instrumental in the formation of the African American studies program. In this video excerpt she discusses her experiences as a campus activist. From the Smith College Alumne Oral History Project.
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This video shows scenes from the women’s march on Washington, DC in 2004, from footage for the documentary “Listen Up! New Voices for Reproductive Justice,” by N’Dieye Gray Danavall. Part of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective Records.
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Three young women working at the National Abortion Rights Action League in Altanta were interviewed as they were helping to organize the March for Women’s Lives in Washington DC, 2004. In these video excerpts they discuss why they are activists.
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This video is from footage taken for the documentary “Listen Up! New Voices for Reproductive Justice,” by N’Dieye Gray Danavall. It was donated to the SSC as part of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective Records.
Dazan Diallo, reproductive justice activist, was interviewed at SisterLove, Inc. in Atlanta while preparing for the March for Women’s Lives in Washington, DC, 2004. In this video excerpt she talks about being an activist.
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This video is part of footage used for the documentary “Listen Up! New Voices for Reproductive Justice,” by N’Dieye Gray Danavall. It was donated to the SSC as part of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective Records. TheDázon Dixon Diallo Papers are also in the SSC.
Loretta Ross, reproductive justice activist and co-director for women of color for the April 2004 March for Women’s Lives in Washington, D.C. In this video clip she talks about why she will be marching.
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This video is part of footage used for the documentary “Listen Up! New Voices for Reproductive Justice,” by N’Dieye Gray Danavall. It was donated to the SSC as part of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective Records. The Loretta Ross Papers are also in the SSC.
Katsi Cook talks about the origins of the Mothers’ Milk Project in 1983 to monitor the environmental impact of industrial development and the resulting PCB contamination of the water in the Akwesasne community on the St. Regis Reservation along the St. Lawrence River.
Cook was interviewed for the Voices of Feminism Oral History Project. Her papers are also in the SSC.
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Michaelanne Bewsee is co-founder of Arise for Social Justice in Springfield, Massachusetts. Arise is a grassroots “poor people’s rights organization” whose purpose is “to learn to speak for ourselves to advocate for positive changes in the treatment of poor people and in the welfare system.”
Bewsee was interviewed for the Voices of Feminism Oral History Project. The Arise for Social Justice Records are also in the SSC.
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Achebe Betty Powell recounts her introduction to activism through the National Council of Christians and Jews, amid the climate of racism and anti-Semitism in the mid-century South. From the Voices of Feminism Oral History Project.
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