Reminiscences of Sigmund Diamond : oral history, 1983.

Biographical Note

Educator, activist; interviewee b. 1920.

Scope and Contents

Family and early education; work with United Automobile Workers, Detroit, 1943-1948; doctoral candidate, Harvard, 1949-1954: relationship with faculty, job offer as Dean of Special Students, 1954; withdrawal of offer because of former membership in Communist Party; efforts of some faculty to intervene on his behalf; decision to inform prospective employers of events at Harvard and effects on job search, especially at Amherst and Columbia; visiting assistant professor at Columbia, 1955; links between Harvard and Federal Bureau of Investigation during McCarthy period.

Subjects

• Columbia University.
• Communist Party of the United States of America.
• Diamond, Sigmund.
• Educators--Interviews.
• Harvard University.
• Internal security--United States.
• Interviews.
• Mernit, Ralph, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Oral histories.
• United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1983.