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1 online resource (26 min.) |
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Australasian video online |
| Summary |
Political Activist and Women's Leader. Born Sydney, 1919. Died 2009. By the age of 17, Freda Brown had survived the Depression, joined the Communist Party, and become an important figure in the New Theatre. She travelled around Australia raising money for War Bonds, before meeting and marrying Bill Brown, later the editor of the Communist newspaper Tribune. After the war, Freda joined the New Housewives Association, becoming president of what would ultimately develop into the Union of Australian Women. Freda lobbied the United Nations to declare 1975 as International Women's Year. Her part in this project led to her election as Vice-President, then President, of the Women's International Democratic Federation, a group which represented 123 countries at UN conferences around the world. She has visited many trouble spots - Vietnam, Cambodia, Algeria and Palestine - and is still an active lobbyist in the area of human rights |
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Title from resource description page (viewed November 3, 2014) |
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In English |
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Brown, Freda, 1919-
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Women communists -- Australia -- Interviews
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Women political activists -- Australia -- Interviews
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Women communists.
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Women political activists.
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Australia.
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Documentary films.
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Interviews.
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Documentary films.
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Documentaires.
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Streaming video
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| Author |
Heimans, Frank.
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