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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Luz Rodriquez discusses the origins of her political activism within the New York Puerto Rican community, and the importance of learning one’s history, in particular learning about the history of sterilization abuse of Puerto Rican women. (Voices of Feminism Oral History Project)
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Frances Beal discusses her early experiences in the civil rights movement and founding the Women’s Committee of SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) in the early 1960s. From the Voices of Feminism Oral History Project.
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