Kartar Dhillon, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Kartar Dhillon

American activist

Date of Birth: 30-Apr-1915

Place of Birth: Simi Valley, California, United States

Date of Death: 15-Jun-2008

Profession: human rights activist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Kartar Dhillon (Punjabi: ????? ??????) was a South Asian American political activist and writer from California.
Dhillon grew up in the Ghadar Party, working to end British colonialism in India.
As an activist, she supported unions, the Black Panther Party, farm workers, political prisoners, and the Korean reunification movement.Her father Bakhshish Singh Dhillon and her mother Rattan Kaur lived in Oregon and California.
Kartar Dhillon was the fourth child in the family.
At the time she was born, their family was the only Indian family in Simi Valley.During World War II, Dhillon worked as a machinist and truck driver from the Marine Corps.
She picked crops, worked as a waitress, and was the secretary for the San Francisco, Teamsters and Abestos Worker's unions.
She retired in 1983.Her writing included "The Parrot's Beak," an autobiographical essay about her early life published in Making Waves: An Anthology of Writings By and About Asian American Women.
In 1994, at age 80, Dhillon founded the Chaat Collective, a South Asian American art and performance collective.She died in 2008 in Berkeley, California.