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An Interview with Amina Cachalia

Title
An Interview with Amina Cachalia/ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture ; interviewed by A. Leonora Taitt-Mugubane.
Author
Cachalia, Amina, 1930-2013.
Publication
1989-05-08.

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Disc 1Moving imageUse in library Sc Visual DVD-1525 Disc 1Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound
Disc 2Moving imageUse in library Sc Visual DVD-1525 Disc 2Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound
Moving imageUse in library Sc Visual VRA-147Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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Additional Authors
  • Taitt-Magubane, A. Lenora.
  • Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Description
2 videodiscs (DVD) (36 min.) : sd., col.; 3/4 in.
Summary
Mrs. Cachalia discusses her political life and work in South Africa. Early political, anti-apartheid involvement; founding of Federation of South African Women, the women involved and its activities; women's march on the Prime Minister, August 9, 1956 to protest the pass laws; Federation of Transvaal Women and its leaders; Mrs. Albertina Sisulu's work; work of the South African Indian Congress; Amina and husband Yusef's involvement in 1952 Defiance Campaign, her imprisonment and subsequent banning; banning procedure described; friendship with Nelson Mandela, their visit with in him in July 1988; final comment on status of blacks in America.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Interviews.
  • Biographies.
  • Black films and programs.
Note
  • Recorded May 8, 1989 at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library, New York.
Biography (note)
  • Mrs. Amina Cachalia was a South African anti-Apartheid activist, women's rights activist, and a founding member of the Federation of South African Women and a patron of the Federation of Transvaal Women.
Call Number
Sc Visual DVD-1525
OCLC
NYPG91-F239
Author
Cachalia, Amina, 1930-2013. Interviewee
Title
An Interview with Amina Cachalia/ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture ; interviewed by A. Leonora Taitt-Mugubane.
Imprint
1989-05-08.
Biography
Mrs. Amina Cachalia was a South African anti-Apartheid activist, women's rights activist, and a founding member of the Federation of South African Women and a patron of the Federation of Transvaal Women.
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Added Author
Taitt-Magubane, A. Lenora. Interviewer
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Research Call Number
Sc Visual DVD-1525
Sc Visual VRA-147 VHS
Sc Visual VRB-355 Archival original
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