Reminiscences of Mary Benson : oral history, 1987.

Biographical Note

Civil rights worker

Scope and Contents

Recollections of Allard K. Lowenstein: first meeting, 1959, his concern over Communist infiltration of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, his visits to London, his speeches, family life, his death; her position as secretary to Michael Scott, her trip to southern United States in the 1960s, sit-ins, 1963

Subjects

• African Americans--Civil rights.
• African Americans--Social conditions.
• Benson, Mary--Interviews.
• Chafe, William H., 1942- interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Civil rights workers--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Lowenstein, Allard K.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• South Africa--Race relations.
• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
• United States--Race relations.

Access Conditions

Copyright by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1988