Reminiscences of Constance Curry : oral history, 1990.

Biographical Note

Civil rights worker

Scope and Contents

Recollections of Allard K. Lowenstein: first meeting with Lowenstein at National Student Association [NSA] 1952 congress, various opinions within NSA regarding Lowenstein's role; further contact with Lowenstein, New York; successor to Lowenstein as Field Secretary of Collegiate Council to United Nations, 1957-1960; reflections on Lowenstein's ambition, desire for personal and political power, relations with women, lack of a feminist perspective; Curry's activities with Southern Human Relations Project, American Friends Service Committee, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; civil rights work in Mississippi

Subjects

• Chafe, William H., 1942- interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Civil rights workers--Interviews.
• Curry, Constance, 1933-2020--Interviews.
• Feminism.
• Interviews.
• Lowenstein, Allard K.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
• Students--Political activity.
• United Nations.
• United States National Student Association.

Access Conditions

Copyright by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1991