Oral history interview with Leon Wofsy, 1994

Biographical Note

Immunologist

Scope and Contents

Youth; father, founding member of Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA); organizer; Young Pioneers; City College of New York (CCNY) 1938-1942, politics, activities, relations between communists and Trotskyists, Jewish Marxist milieu, Rapp Coudert Hearings, anti-fascism; Young Communist League; American Student Union; United States Army 1943, ejection from; CP and Soviet Union; organizer American Youth for Democracy, Labor Youth League 1944-1956; Secretary Eugene Dennis; 1956 Krushchev speech, reactions to, reading of; leaves CP 1956; Cold War; House Committee on Un-American Activities hearings, appearance, Security Control Board; blacklisting, difficulties of employment; University of California, Berkeley 1964, Free Speech Movement (FSM); New Left; reflections on political career

Subjects

• Dorman, Joseph, 1958- interviewer.
• Interviews.
• New York (N.Y.)--Intellectual life--20th century.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Wofsy, Leon--Interviews.

Access Conditions

Copyright by Joseph Dorman