Reminiscences of Helen Suzman : oral history, 1984

Biographical Note

Legislator, civil rights activist

Scope and Contents

Childhood and education in South Africa; lectureship at University of Witwatersrand, 1945-1953; elected to parliament, United Party, 1953; resignation from United Party and formation of Progressive Party, 1959; opposition to laws limiting the rights of Black people, colored people, and Indians; the history of apartheid laws; independent homelands; violent resistance to apartheid; South African involvements in other countries; labor and education rights; the United States civil rights movement as related to South Africa; visiting prisoners in South African jails; the state of prisoners and prisoner-government relations; Black freedom organizations; Black-Israeli tensions; benefits and problems of international sanctions; meditations on the future of South Africa Impressions of: P.W. Botha; Nelson Mandela; Dr. H.F. Verwoerd; J.C. Smuts

Subjects

• Apartheid--South Africa.
• Black people--Relations with Jews--South Africa.
• Civil rights.
• Edwin, Ed, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Legislators--South Africa--Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Prisons--South Africa--Correspondence.
• Prisons and race relations--South Africa.
• South Africa--History--1909-1961.
• South Africa--History--1961-1994.
• South Africa--Politics and government--1948-1961.
• South Africa--Politics and government--1961-1978.
• South Africa--Race relations.
• South Africa--Social conditions.
• Suzman, Helen.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1988