![]() In the summer of 1965, Cade participated in a voter registration and education project in New Orleans 4th Ward led by Matt Suarez. She describes life in the apartments of Professor Ed Kavinsky and a picket against racist campus businesses. ![]() In the fall of 1964, Cade began attending graduate school at Tulane University in New Orleans. She describes her work in Alabama and Gulfport, Mississippi in 1964. Cade began working full-time for Atlanta SNCC in the summer of 1963. Cade remembers sitting-in at the Georgia State Legislature with Howard Zinn and attending Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) meetings while at Spelman. Cade describes her experiences at Carleton College and her decision to attend Spelman College in the spring of 1962. A ninth grader at the time, Cade discussed the boycott with her Unitarian youth group and saw the play "A Raisin in the Sun." Cade also describes her memories of the integration of Little Rock Central High. ![]() Cade first heard of the civil rights movement during the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Cade goes on to describe her move to the suburbs of Chicago. Cade cites the reactions of adults towards her Black doll as her earliest memory of racism, and points to her admiration of a friend's independent, working-class mother as an initial exposure to class difference. Cade begins the interview by describing her upper-middle class, Midwestern, Unitarian family. ![]()
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