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Reminiscences of William Taylor : oral history, 1988.

Creator: Taylor, William L., 1931-2010
Project: Allard K. Lowenstein project.
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Phys. Desc. :Transcript 40 pages Sound recording 1 audiocassette
Location: Columbia Center for Oral History
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Biographical Note

Attorney

Scope and Contents

Law school with Lowenstein at Yale; Adlai Stevenson presidential campaign; contacts with Americans for Democratic Action; work with National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Legal Defense Fund; recollections of 1960 presidential race; Freedom Summer in Mississippi; Civil Rights Commission during Kennedy administration; suspicion of Lowenstein by Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee as representative of "establishment;" anti-communism and Lowenstein; Dump Johnson movement and 1968 presidential campaign; Lowenstein's congressional campaign; Lowenstein's congressional tenure; personal relationship with Lowenstein

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Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1989

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