Interview with Alice Palmer
Title
Interview with Alice Palmer
Subject
This interview talks about Palmer's experiences as a child before moving into her involvement in anti-apartheid movements.
Description
Notable Quote:
"And so we had a trial. We brought in Marge Benton, the late US Senator Paul Simon, um all kinds of folk to testify to the heinousness of Apartheid. ... We had brilliant lawyers who raised this defense, and we had a- a jury. And they acquitted these people and said yes that this was so heinous that they had a right to um object and to um sit in and do what they needed to do. So and one woman in the jury in the front row leaped over the fence said she wanted to know where were marching so we could- she could join the- the movement."
"And so we had a trial. We brought in Marge Benton, the late US Senator Paul Simon, um all kinds of folk to testify to the heinousness of Apartheid. ... We had brilliant lawyers who raised this defense, and we had a- a jury. And they acquitted these people and said yes that this was so heinous that they had a right to um object and to um sit in and do what they needed to do. So and one woman in the jury in the front row leaped over the fence said she wanted to know where were marching so we could- she could join the- the movement."
Source
You can listen to this interview or download a transcript via Columbia's Digital Commons.
Duration
107 minutes
Interviewer
Katherine Elizabeth McAuliffe
Interviewee
Alice Palmer
Collection
Citation
“Interview with Alice Palmer,” The Chicago Anti-Apartheid Movement Collection, accessed May 16, 2024, https://caamcollection.omeka.net/items/show/1.