/internal/media/dispatcher/72347/fullHeather Booth Oral History05/05/2021Duration: 54 MinutesBorn digital (.m2ts file), Born digital (.m4a file), Born digital (.mp4 file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2021.001.00280Videotaped 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 Curator Stephen Fagin. The interview is 54 minutes long.
Technical note: This interview consists of a Zoom audio-video file, an isolated Zoom combined audio track, and HD video reference of Stephen Fagin in 501 Elm board room.
The video attached to this record is an excerpt. The entire interview is available in our Reading Room to on-site researchers or by submitting a Rights & Reproductions Request Form.Oral Histories657070E-100E-1070977Oral history0E-10Videotaped 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.Civil rightsOral historiesAuthorWomen's rightsPeaceCongress of Racial Equality (CORE)Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)MississippiChicagoNew YorkCivil Rights and Social Activism (OHC)Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)Authors, Filmmakers, and Researchers (OHC)During 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