South Asian Activist Kala Bagai Was Once Driven Out of Berkeley. Now There's A Street Named After Her.

Podcast: The Bay (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: South Asian Activist Kala Bagai Was Once Driven Out of Berkeley. Now There's A Street Named After Her.Pub date: 2020-10-05Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationBerkeley recently renamed a street after a South Asian activist Kala Bagai. But her story isn’t the typical one you hear about people who get streets or monuments named after them.Nearly 100 years ago, Bagai and her family were driven out of town by racist neighbors who didn’t want them to move in. She and her family eventually left the Bay Area, and a lot of her later activism was the kind of work that didn’t make the headlines. But that’s exactly why some people feel like she’s the perfect person to represent the past and the present.Guest: Barnali Ghosh, curator and community historian with the South Asian Radical History Walking TourClick here to read a Mar. 12, 2020 op-ed in Berkeleyside by Kala Bagai’s granddaughter, Rani Bagai, about her grandmother’s story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from KQED, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.