Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Oral history interview with Carol Brightman, 1984
Creator: | Brightman, Carol | Project: | Student movements of the 1960s project. (see all project interviews) | Phys. Desc. : | sound file : digital preservation master, WAV files (96 kHz, 24 bit) transcript: 129 pages | Location: | Columbia Center for Oral History | Full CLIO record >> |
Biographical NotePolitical activist
Scope and ContentsFirst conscious political act, Vassar, B.A., 1961, University of Chicago graduate studies: Congress of Racial Equality, teaching Central YMCA College, documentary film work "The College", Cuban Missile Crisis; Vietnam War awareness awakens: family, political influences, Catholicism; NYU graduate studies: assistantship, radicalization, termination; "Viet Report" development: marriage, political networking in New York City, Vietnam War documentation, Movement, wartime America; travel in Vietnam with Bertrand Russell War Crimes Commission; hometown ostracization; development as public speaker, media becomes radicalization tool; divorce, end of Viet Report; "Leviathan" development, Second Venceremos Brigade: commune work, political activism; contact with Students for a Democratic Society: Columbia, travel to Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, Vietnamese foreign policy; American social militarization: Flint, Chicago, 1968; life in Berkeley, California commune: "Media Collective," development of feminist consciousness, Women's Health Collective, Weathermen; Massachusetts: first child, '71-'74; New York: work for "Seven Days" and "Working Papers", Brooklyn, community teaching experiences; attitude toward "old left" and post Vietnam experiences. Editor, with Sandra Levinson, "The Venceremos Brigade"
SubjectsAccess ConditionsCopyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1985
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