Chude Pamela Allen is a writer and speaker, as well as an activist in the Civil Rights and women's liberation movements. Allen was born in 1943 and grew up in Solebury, Pennsylvania. She joined the Mississippi Freedom Summer in 1964 and taught at a Freedom School in Holly Springs, Mississippi. She wrote Free Space:A Perspective on the Small Group in Women's Liberation, based on the Sudsofloppen model for consciousness-raising groups. Allen researched and co-wrote Reluctant Reformers: Racism and Social Reform Movements in the United Stateswith her then-husband Robert L. Allen. She has also helped organize the Bay Area Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement, and continues to write and speak about her memories of civil rights work. In this interview, Allen discusses her family heritage; growing up in Solebury, and the community's demographics and politics; the importance of her early Episcopal faith; traveling to Costa Rica at sixteen; attending Carleton College and early activism; working at the Church of the Advocate in North Philadelphia and becoming more aware of racism; becoming an exchange student to Spelman College, being one of very few white students on campus and taking a course with Staughton Lynd; joining Mississippi Freedom Summer in 1964, including preparations for and work on the project, local activists and leaders, the deaths of other Civil Rights workers, speaking to students at Ole Miss, reactions from white peers, and the costs of this activism; meeting and marrying her first husband, Robert L. Allen; work at The Guardian and anti-war activism; work in the women's liberation movement, including connection to Shulamith Firestone and formation of New York Radical Women in New York, discussions and disagreements within the movement, formation of Sudsofloppen in San Francisco, connections to other women's groups, and mentor Patricia Robinson; moving to San Francisco in 1969 and experiencing housing discrimination; personal memory and its role in documenting the history of movements; researching and writing Reluctant Reformers: Racism and Social Movements in the United States with Robert L. Allen; writing Free Space: A Perspective on the Small Group in Women's Liberationabout the four processes in consciousness-raising groups; taking a trip to Cuba in 1972 with the Venceremos Brigade; the birth of her son, Casey, in 1975 and raising a mixed-race child in San Francisco; joining Union WAGE (Women's Alliance to Gain Equality), including connections to the women's liberation movement, newsletters and conferences, activists and leaders like Jean Maddox; meeting and marrying Norris Mackie; joining a spiritual cult in the 1980s; involvement in Bay Area Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement and ongoing education work about the Civil Rights Movement; personal writing and spiritual connections to Sojourner Truth; and the legacy of the women's liberation movement in the Bay Area.