Interview with Heather Booth

2010-12-02

Stephen McKiernan

Heather Booth

Heather Booth is a civil rights activist, feminist, and political strategist. Booth started organizing in the civil rights, anti-Vietnam war, and women's movements of the 1960s. She also started JANE, an underground abortion service in 1965. Booth was the founding Director and is now President of the Midwest Academy. She became the Director of the NAACP National Voter Fund, which helped to increase African American election turnout in 2000. She was directing the founding of the Campaign for Comprehensive Immigration Reform in 2005. Booth became the director of the Health Care Campaign for the AFL-CIO in 2008. In 2009, she directed the campaign passing President Obama’s first budget. She was strategic advisor to the Alliance for Citizenship and has been a consultant on many other issues and with other organizations. Booth has a Bachelor's degree in Social Sciences, then in 1970, a Master's degree in Educational Psychology, both from the University of Chicago.

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Baby boom generation; Civil Rights Movement; Women's Rights Movement; War protest; Suffragettes; Activism; University of Chicago; Freedom; School boycotts; Free Speech Movement;

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