Elaine Black Yoneda
Sound recording of Lucille Kendall’s 1976-1977 interview with radical activist Elaine Black Yoneda. The interview documents Yoneda’s activism with the International Labor Defense, International Longshoremen’s Association’s Defense Committee, Communist party, and various other labor and civil rights movements in California.
Date of Interview
Interviewer
1977-01-01
Lucille Kendall
Project
Program/Repository
Women in California Collection
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It was a struggle, because let’s face it, so many things are ingrained at our mother’s breast that it’s awfully hard to do away with. Even some of our own mothers taught us our position was in the kitchen and not out on the picket line or out on the street corner. So that it’s ingrained... and the struggle is still there.