int59. Allison Barrett

Allison Barrett was born in South Africa and came to Britain as a child. She was an activist in Tyneside Anti-Apartheid Group from the early 1980s and represented it on the AAM National Committee. Tyneside AA Group included artists and designers and set up an anti-apartheid choir, which performed at the Edinburgh Festival. In 1988, it hosted the South African dance group ‘Sisters of the Long March’. Allison was a sculptor, who made a head of Nelson Mandela, sold to raise funds for the Anti-Apartheid Movement.

This is a complete transcript of an interview carried out as part of a research project on the British Anti-Apartheid Movement and South Africa’s transition to majority rule, conducted by Dr Matt Graham (History programme, University of Dundee) and Dr Christopher Fevre (International Studies Group, University of the Free State) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13619462.2021.1976154