Reminiscences of Fowler W. Martin [electronic resource]: oral history, 1988.

Biographical Note

Civil rights worker; nickname is Skip

Scope and Contents

First contact with Allard K. Lowenstein, Stanford University, 1961; Lowenstein's power base at Stern Hall; growth of campus social issues into larger issues: civil rights in Mississippi; Stanford Daily as conduit for Lowenstein's ideas, 1963, 1964; quick peak and decline of Lowenstein's influence on Stanford campus; Lowenstein's Americans for Democratic Action background and use of red-baiting: relationships with protegees and rivals; success of Dump Johnson campaign, 1964 Mississippi campaign; 1968 Long Island campaign; impact of Lowenstein's shift from Eugene McCarthy to Robert Kennedy; Lowenstein's reaction to Robert Kennedy's assassination; issue of homosexuality; substance, quality of Lowenstein's achievements

Subjects

• Americans for Democratic Action.
• Chafe, William H., 1942- interviewer.
• Civil rights workers--Interviews.
• Democratic Party (U.S.)
• Interviews.
• Lowenstein, Allard K.
• Male homosexuality.
• Martin, Fowler W.--Interviews.
• Mississippi--Politics and government--1951-
• Oral histories.
• Presidents--United States--Election--1968.
• Stanford University.
• United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1991