Reminiscences of Peter Shapiro : oral history, 1984.

Biographical Note

Political activist

Scope and Contents

Family background; initial political involvement during high school: member of Student Congress of Racial Equality and Students Organized Education and Action League, relationship with the counter culture; first term as a student at University of California at Berkeley, 1966; transfer to San Francisco State; writer for an underground newspaper, "Open Process"; experience with early anti-war rallies, stop the draft week, the Experimental college; increased political power of the Black Students Union; students' reaction to Columbia's and Paris' student movement; trip to Columbia University campus; description of the six month strike at San Francisco State: role of "Open Process" and the faculty, issues of the strike, police violence; decision to write "An End to Silence" with Bill Barlow; post-strike campus environment; Chicago Students for a Democratic Society convention; reaction to the emerging women's movement; graduate school in history at Berkeley; work with Radical Students Union; creation of the Bay Area School and the Liberation School; critique of Berkeley's political environment; problems of the new left; recent political involvement

Subjects

• African American student movements.
• Civil rights--United States.
• Columbia University.
• Congress of Racial Equality.
• Feminism.
• Grele, Ronald J., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Shapiro, Peter--(Labor journalist)--Interviews.
• Students--Interviews.
• Student strikes.
• Subculture.
• Underground press publications.
• University of California, Berkeley.
• Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1984