Reminiscences of Corliss Lamont : oral history, 1984.

Biographical Note

Author, teacher.

Scope and Contents

Criticism of President Reagan's domestic policies; awakened interest in public issues while a student at Howard; past civil liberties law suits; the House Unamerican Activities Committee; impressions of the international peace situation and the nuclear arms race; belief in humanist philosophy and socialism; recent health trouble and its effect upon his lifestyle; giving money to various institutions and charities, concentration on civil liberties and environmental causes and humanist organizations; various awards received; impressions of Norman Thomas, Roger Baldwin and Fred Field.

Subjects

• Authors--Interviews.
• Civil rights--United States.
• Gellhorn, Kitty, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Humanism.
• Interviews.
• Lamont, Corliss, 1902-1995.
• Oral histories.
• Peaceful change (International relations)
• United States--Politics and government--20th century.
• United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities.

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