doi:10.7916/d8-chca-8161Oral history interview with Cathy Cade, 2002Cade, Cathy, 1942-oral historiesmixed materialCivil rights--Religious aspects--20th centuryCivil rights movements--History--20th century.--United StatesCivil rights workers--History--20th century.--LouisianaSecond-wave feminismLesbians--CaliforniaUnited States Race relations 20th centuryCade, Cathy, 1942-Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)Spelman CollegeCarleton College (Northfield, Minn.)Cade begins the interview by describing her upper-middle class, Midwestern, Unitarian family. 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 goes on to describe her move to the suburbs of Chicago. Cade first heard of the civil rights movement during the Montgomery Bus Boycott. 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 describes her experiences at Carleton College and her decision to attend Spelman College in the spring of 1962. Cade remembers sitting-in at the Georgia State Legislature with Howard Zinn and attending Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) meetings while at Spelman. Cade began working full-time for Atlanta SNCC in the summer of 1963. She describes her work in Alabama and Gulfport, Mississippi in 1964. In the fall of 1964, Cade began attending graduate school at Tulane University in New Orleans. She describes life in the apartments of Professor Ed Kavinsky and a picket against racist campus businesses. In the summer of 1965, Cade participated in a voter registration and education project in New Orleans 4th Ward led by Matt Suarez. In 1966 and 1967, Cade conducted doctoral research in the black community of Canton, Mississippi. Cade describes a group of women that began to meet at that same time to discuss feminist issues, including Dottie (Dorothy) Zellner, Mary Lovelace, and Jeanette King. In the final part of the interview, Cade recalls her experience as a lesbian in San Francisco in the 1970s. Cade discusses previous exposure to the gay community, Women's Liberation meetings at Glide Memorial Church, and interracial marriages