The Black Women’s Movement, Interviews

The following interview excerpts are from The Heart of The Race Oral History Project (2009-2010). The project was based on 'The Heart Of The Race' by Beverley Bryan, Stella Dadzie & Suzanne Scafe (Virago, 1985), a groundbreaking publication which examined the lives of Black women in Britain using oral testimony. The project collected interviews from a range of Black women involved in the movement of the 1970s and 1980s, capturing the activism and organising undertaken at grassroots, national and international level.

For more information on the project and summary transcriptions of all interviews: https://collections.blackculturalarchives.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/1716

ORAL_1_28.1 Martha Osamor_education and sus law
Martha Otito Osamar
ORAL_1_28.1 Martha Osamor_Black pressure group on education
Martha Otito Osamar
ORAL_1_21 Gail Lewis_sus and Black motherhood
Dr Gail Andrea Lewis
ORAL_1_21 Gail Lewis_on mothers in the womens movement
Dr Gail Andrea Lewis
ORAL_1_8 Beverly Bryan_revolutionary potenial
Beverley Bryan
ORAL_1_20 Junie James_excerpt
Junie James
ORAL_1_14 Linda Bellos_introduction
ORAL_1_35 Lindiwe Tselie_on Althea Jones-LeCointe
ORAL_1_6 Mavis Best_sus campaign
ORAL_1_9 Dawn Butler_sicklecell
ORAL_1_12_Stella Dadzie_movement building
Stella Dadzie
ORAL_1_18_Carol Leeming and Donna Jackman_feminism
ORAL_1_17 Baroness Ros Howells_coard
Ros Howells
ORAL_1_17_Baroness Ros Howells_racerelations
Ros Howells
ORAL_1_24_Jan Mckenley_organising
Jan Mckenley
ORAL_1_24 Jan McKenley_excerpt
Dr Jan McKenley

Full transcriptions:

Linda Bellos, Gerlin Bean, Gail Lewis