Publication Date
Spring
Keywords
Chicago, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, World Council of Churches, FRELIMO, Chicago Committee for Liberation of Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau (CCLAMG), Mozambique Liberation Front
Disciplines
African American Studies | African History | African Languages and Societies | American Politics | Civic and Community Engagement | Cultural History | History | Inequality and Stratification | International Relations | Other Political Science | Place and Environment | Political History | Political Science | Political Theory | Race and Ethnicity | Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies | Work, Economy and Organizations
Abstract
Length: minutes
Oral history interview of Rozell 'Prexy' Nesbitt by Erin McCarthy, PhD in Transcript created by Katherine Philipson, summer
Prexy Nesbitt recounts his childhood in the Lawndale neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, living in the family-owned apartment building with eleven flats and multi-racial family and friends. He speaks about his education at Francis Parker school and his first trip to African while a student at Antioch in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, where he began his anti-apartheid work
Interview with Prexy Nesbitt
Interview with Prexy Nesbitt
Creator
Prexy Nesbitt (Interviewee); William Minter (Interviewer)
Contributor
Gail Hovey
Place Created
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Date
October 31,
Type of Item
Interview Transcript
Length/duration
21 pages
Description
Prexy Nesbitt - Activist, Educator, Multiculturalism and Diversity Specialist - Oak Parker
There is something about meeting someone in their own home over a morning cup of tea that sets a certain comfort level, and Prexy's home is certainly a comfortable one. Surrounded by books and photos I was instantly captivated. I left an hour later uplifted, uplifted and reminded that any one of us can do our bit to better the world. We can reach out to each-other, to our neighbor next door, to our neighbor in another country and work together to make this place a better one for all of us together.
Four decades of movements for social justice and a commitment to anti-racism brings us a lovely person and a life well lived. From working with MLK Jr. and friendships with Nelson Mandela, civil rights on Chicago west side to helping direct the World Council of Churches to Combat Racism (from Geneva, Switzerland), it's not surprising that he grew up in a home filled with civil rights and union organizing. (his parents marched with Percy Julian in the 's after Julian's Oak Park home was firebombed, the Julians were the first African-Americans to move into Oak Park) It is
Prexy Nesbitt
Prexy (Roselle) Nesbitt is a veteran Chicago based activist.
Activism
Nesbitt was highly active in labor and equality movements and in , he became the national coordinator and field organizer for the Bank Withdrawal Campaign for the American Committee on Africa. Two years later Nesbitt was named the director of the Africa project at the Institute of Policy Studies in Washington, D.C. In , Nesbitt became the program director and secretary for research at the World Council of Churches, based in Geneva, Switzerland.
Nesbitt returned to Chicago in , where he continued his work as a labor organizer. In , Chicago mayor Harold Washington named Nesbitt as a special assistant. The following year, the government of Mozambique appointed Nesbitt to serve as a consultant to help them represent their interest to the United States, Canada, and Europe;he remained in this post until
In , Nesbitt took a post as a lecturer with the Associated Colleges of the Midwest, and in , Nesbitt has served as senior program officer, and dean of community engagement and diversity with the Program on Peace & International Cooperation with the MacArthur Foundation. In addition to h
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