Reminiscences of Carol Brightman : oral history, 1984.

Biographical Note

Political activist

Scope and Contents

First conscious political act, Vassar, B.A., 1961, University of Chicago graduate studies: Congress of Racial Equality, teaching Central YMCA College, documentary film work "The College", Cuban Missile Crisis; Vietnam War awareness awakens: family, political influences, Catholicism; NYU graduate studies: assistantship, radicalization, termination; "Viet Report" development: marriage, political networking in New York City, Vietnam War documentation, Movement, wartime America; travel in Vietnam with Bertrand Russell War Crimes Commission; hometown ostracization; development as public speaker, media becomes radicalization tool; divorce, end of Viet Report; "Leviathan" development, Second Venceremos Brigade: commune work, political activism; contact with Students for a Democratic Society: Columbia, travel to Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, Vietnamese foreign policy; American social militarization: Flint, Chicago, 1968; life in Berkeley, California commune: "Media Collective," development of feminist consciousness, Women's Health Collective, Weathermen; Massachusetts: first child, '71-'74; New York: work for "Seven Days" and "Working Papers", Brooklyn, community teaching experiences; attitude toward "old left" and post Vietnam experiences Editor, with Sandra Levinson, "The Venceremos Brigade".

Subjects

• Brightman, Carol--Interviews.
• Feminism.
• Grele, Ronald J., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Radicalism.
• Student movements.
• Students--Political activity.
• Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Anti-war movements--Study and teaching.
• Women political activists--Interviews.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1985