Ron Klopfanstein interviews Cassandra Harris Lockwood for Martin Luther King Day “Hot Seat,” part two
Part one of this series is available here: https://uticaphoenix.net/ron-klopfanstein-interviews-cassandra-harris-lockwood-for-martin-luther-king-day-hot-seat/
In the second of our Martin Luther King Day 2024 episodes of “The Hot Seat with Cassandra Harris Lockwood,” journalist Ron Klopfanstein interviews Cassandra Harris Lockwood about her experiences fighting for equality and peace in the late 1960s and early 1970s. “You could tell that things were changing and that we could be that change,” she recalls.
In part one, Cassandra Harris Lockwood recounts her experiences organizing the first non-violent act of civil disobedience while she was a student at Whitesboro High School in the 1970s. I asked how those early experiences informed her lifelong pursuit of diversity, equity, and inclusion through activism. “It brought home to me that this is an effective tool that can be used to change society [and that] power really does not have your best interest at heart.”
In part two, Cassandra Harris Lockwood talks about taking part in a three-day hunger strike outside of Utica’s City Hall and her involvement in the Peace Movement and going to Washington DC, to protest the inauguration of President Richard Nixon. She recalls it at a very exciting time, “you have to remember we were burning bras back in those days…it was a different time.”
In part three, Cassandra Harris Lockwood talks about how the power elite still conspire to prevent minorities from achieving real equality because it will threaten their power and how that mindset has its roots in slavery. “It’s a choice, and it’s about economics,” she explains.
Part one of this series is available here: https://uticaphoenix.net/ron-klopfanstein-interviews-cassandra-harris-lockwood-for-martin-luther-king-day-hot-seat/
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