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Student movements of the 1960s project : oral history, 1976-1989.

Project: Student movements of the 1960s project.
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Phys. Desc. :Transcripts 8294 pages Sound recordings 229 audiocassettes
Location: Columbia Center for Oral History
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Biographical Note

The Student Movements of the 1960s project contains eighty-two interviews conducted by Ronald Grele and Bret Eynon in preparation of an oral history of mid-20th century student movements. This objective was ultimately realized in the book 1968: A Student Generation in Revolt, edited by Ronald Fraser and published by Chatto and Windus in 1988. The book was international in scope and also drew upon the work of oral historians running projects in Great Britain, Northern Ireland, West Germany, France, and Italy. The Grele and Eynon interviews represent the American dimension of 1960s activism

Scope and Contents

The Student Movements of the 1960s project contains eighty-two interviews conducted by Ronald Grele and Bret Eynon that document mid-20th century student movements in the United States. The interviews cover almost every aspect and organization in the student movement, including the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the Southern Students Organizing Committee, Progressive Labor, and many more. There are detailed descriptions of the Mississippi Summer of 1964, the 1968 Democratic Convention, the San Francisco and Columbia University student strikes, and actions at many other universities. There is also testimony on the women' movement, the gay liberation movement, the Black Panthers, and the Weather Underground. The collection's narrators are: General G. Baker, Michael S. Balter, Frank Bardacke, Rosalyn Baxandall, Fay Bellamy, Bettina Berch, Kerry and Carol Berland, Heather Booth, Robert Bowen, Jeremy Brecher, Stephen and Pam Brier, Carol Brightman, Joshua Brown, Paul Buhle, Cathy Cade, Gregory Nevala Calvert, Terry Collins, Nesbit Crutchfield, Hari Dillon, Hal Draper, Karen Duncanwood, Andrea Boroff Eagan and Richard Eagan, Sarah Elbert, H. Bruce Franklin, Steven Fraser, Jo Freeman, Michael Frisch, Thomas Gallagher, Barbara Garson, David Gilbert, Juan Gomez-Quinones, Juan Gonzalez, Robert Gottlieb, J. Eugene Guerrero, Barbara Haber, Bob and Jacquelyn Hall, Steve Hamilton, Michael Hamlin, Raymond Hewitt, Gloria House, James Jacobs, Jeff Jones, Frank Joyce, Harlon and Barbara Joye, E. Ann Kaplan, Charles Leinenweber, Deborah Levenson, John Levin, Jose Limon, David Malament, Elizabeth Martinez, Teresa Meade, Teresa Meade and Andor Skotnes, Iris Morales, James Nixon, Gurney Norman, Martha Prescod Norman, Patricia O'Brien, Carl Oglesby, John O'Neal, Elaine Plaisance, Judy Richardson, Michael Rossman, Lisa Rubens, Gayle Rubin, Mark Rudd, William Sales, Mario Savio, Peter Shapiro, Charles Sherrod, Robbie Skeist, Andor Skotnes, Sue Thrasher, Roberto Vargas, Carlos Vasquez, Michael Wallace, Devra Weber, Jon Wiener, Leni Wildflower, Cathlyn Wilkerson, Emilio Zamora, and Maurice Zeitlin. There is also a recording and transcript of a related event titled "Sixties Panel: Past! Present. Future? From 68 to 86 and Now Where?"

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