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
Rozell "Prexy" Nesbitt Anti-Apartheid Collection
About the Collection
A related collection to the Chicago Anti-Apartheid Movement Collection, the Rozell (Prexy) Nesbitt Collection is comprised of materials related to Nesbitt's time as an anti-apartheid activist and labor organizer.
Collection Inventory
The Rozell (Prexy) Nesbitt Collection online inventory guide shows the contents of the collection held at Columbia College Chicago. Please contact us with any questions.
Biography
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Prexy Nesbitt was educated at Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio. He went on to attend the University of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania; Northwestern University, Illinois; and Columbia University, New York.
An activist and an educator, he has been highly active in labor, human rights, and equality movements. In he worked for the American Committee on Africa where he organized anti- apartheid groups in the Midwest. In he was named director of the Africa Project at the Institute of Policy Studies, Washington, D.C. and in , became the program director and research secretary at the World Council of Churches, Geneva, Switzerland.
In , Nesbitt returned to Chicago to continue
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