Henry Leon interviewed by Stephen Mills in Rusted on - grassroots activists within Australia’s political parties oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 6102569
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Leon, Henry, 1940-, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 2012
- 2 sound files (ca. 144 min.)
- Series:
- Rusted on - grassroots activists within Australia’s political parties oral history project.
- Summary:
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Henry Leon talks about his childhood and family life growing up in South Africa; schooling and electrical apprenticeship in Kimberley (South Africa); joining a trade union after obtaining work in the local Council; living under the Apartheid regime; how his father, Sonny Leon, influenced his political thinking; activities of his father in the United Party and in the Labour Party in the Coloured Representative Council; reaction to the ‘Group Areas Act’; the decision to migrate to Australia; joining the Australian Labor Party; description of the activities of the Peakhurst Branch and the activities of Branch members during election campaigns.
- Notes:
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- This interview is part of a joint oral history project conducted by the National Library of Australia and the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House.
- Recorded on 14 September 2012 in Peakhurst, N.S.W.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Summary not yet available.
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Political activists
- Other authors/contributors:
- Mills, Stephen, 1954-, interviewer
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Rusted on - grassroots activists within Australia’s political parties oral history project.
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- Creation date:
- 2012
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