Chicago Cold War: Roberta Wood
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- Created Date
- 2012-03-23
- Description
Roberta Wood was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on July 4, 1949. She was born to Communist parents, but her journey toward Communism took a much different path. Roberta and her family moved to Riverside, California where she graduated from high school in 1957. While traveling in Europe, she met several women who invited her to the Soviet Union for an international women's conference. After the conference, she toured the country. Upon returning to ...
- Creator
Wood, Roberta
Wright, Brandon
- Contributing Institution
- Chicago History Museum
- Subjects
- Oral history (discipline)
Interviews
Cold War
Civil rights movements
Communism
Steel mills
Trade unions - Location
- Chicago (Ill.)
- Format
- Audio file: 52:14 minutes
- Language
- English
- Rights
- © 2017 Chicago Historical Society, all rights reserved
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- Chicago citation style
- Wood, Roberta, Wright, Brandon. Chicago Cold War: Roberta Wood. 2012-03-23. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_oh/id/243. (Accessed March 28, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Wood, Roberta, Wright, Brandon, (2012-03-23) Chicago Cold War: Roberta Wood. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_oh/id/243
- MLA citation style
- Wood, Roberta, Wright, Brandon. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_oh/id/243>.