Reminiscences of Morris U. Schappes : oral history, 1983.

Biographical Note

Historian, editor.

Scope and Contents

Family background in Ukraine, emigration to the United States, 1914; BA, City Univerity of New York, 1928: participation in campus political groups; lecturer at City University 1928-1941: lack of academic freedom, publication of TEACHER-WORKER, expulsion for using radical texts, subsequent reinstatement; Rapp-Coudert Committee, 1936: refusal to provide names of fellow Communist Party activists; trial and imprisonment for perjury; various publications on Jewish history.

Subjects

• City University of New York.
• Communist Party of the United States of America.
• Editors--Interviews.
• Gilbert, Ellen, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Internal security--United States.
• Interviews.
• Jewish historians--Interviews.
• Oral histories.
• Schappes, Morris U. (Morris Urman), 1907-2004.
• Teaching, Freedom of.

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