Heather Booth Oral History
Object number2021.001.0028
Date05/05/2021
ClassificationsOral Histories
Oral history interview subject
Heather Booth
Oral history interviewer
Stephen Fagin
ObjectOral history
Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumBorn digital (.m2ts file), Born digital (.m4a file), Born digital (.mp4 file)
DimensionsDuration: 54 Minutes
DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with Heather Booth. An award-winning progressive activist, feminist and political strategist, Booth joined the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in 1960 while attending high school in New York City and spent the summer of 1964 working with the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Mississippi. She later became involved with the peace movement and women's rights, co-founding the Chicago Women's Liberation Union (CWLU) in 1969. Booth remains active in progressive politics.
Interview conducted over Zoom on May 5, 2021 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-four minutes long.
Curatorial CommentaryDuring her decades of activism, Heather Booth has contributed to dozens of publications, documentaries, television programs and podcasts. In the independent film, Call Jane (2022), a comedy-drama about a traditional housewife joining the 1960s women's rights movement, the character of "Virginia," portrayed in the film by actress Sigourney Weaver, was loosely based on Booth. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator
