User:Mjohnson151/Norma Kitson

Career
At the age of 14, she went to work as a secretary. She joined the South African Communist Party in the 1950s and became a printer for the cause. After her husband was jailed in 1964, she left South Africa with her children and settled in London. '''In 1973, Kitson founded “Red Lion Setters,” a typesetting collective that operated out of Gray’s Inn Road. Founded after Kitson was fired for attempting to unionize at a previous typesetting job, Red Lion Setters worked for and donated to many different socialist and feminist groups and remained operational until the late 1980’s, leveraging typesetting to contribute heavily to the anti-apartheid movement. In 1982, Red Lion Setters led the successful campaign to free Kitsons son from detainment in South Africa.''' She was often to be found protesting apartheid in Trafalgar Square, in front of South Africa House, as part of the City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, which she founded.[4]