Interview with Bill Sutherland

Creator

Bill Sutherland (Interviewee); Prexy Nesbitt (Interviewer); Mimi Edmunds (Interviewer)

Contributor

William Minter

Place Created

Brooklyn, New York, United States

Date

July 19, 2003

Type of Item

Interview Transcript

Length/duration

11 pages

Description

The introduction includes a quote from Reverend Desmond Tutu and Southerland. Sutherland discusses the Defiance Campaign Against Unjust Laws, George Houser and Bayard Rustin of CORE, and the formation of Americans for South African Resistance and the American Committee on Africa. Sutherland discusses George Padmore, Kwame Nkrumah and living in Ghana. He discusses Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. Sutherland discusses Julius Nyerere of Tanzania, Patrice Lumumba of the Congo, Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia, and Mozambique and FRELIMO leaders Samora Machel, Marcelino dos Santos and Eduardo Mondlane.

Organization

American Committee on Africa
American Friends Service Committee

Coverage Africa

Mozambique
South Africa
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Ghana
Nigeria
Tanzania
Zambia

Language

English

Digital Format

text/pdf

This interview was conducted as research for the book No Easy Victories: African Liberation and American Activists over a Half Century, 1950-2000. With assistance of Aluka (aluka.org), the interview was transcribed and prepared for presentation on the web. The transcript was reviewed by the interviewee, and an introduction was prepared by one of the editors of No Easy Victories. The transcript also is available on the No Easy Victories website. See: http://www.noeasyvictories.org

Rights Management

Used by permission of William Minter, Editor, No Easy Victories