Oral history interview with Gerda Lerner, 1981

Biographical Note

Historian, educator

Scope and Contents

Education and imprisonment in Vienna, 1938; emigration to United States, 1939, unskilled jobs; New School for Social Research, B.A., 1963; Columbia University, PhD., 1966; skeptical acceptance as womens historian; raising family in an integrated neighborhood; involvement with women and labor organizations; screenwriting "Black Like Me"; organization and presidency of Coordinating Committee on Women in the Historical Professions, 1969; organization of women's history program at Sarah Lawrence, 1970s; effect of experience on intellectual development; complexities of documenting female experience and need to restructure methods of historical inquiry; goals and responsiblities as a teacher

Subjects

• Alexander, Cathy, interviewer.
• Columbia University.
• Goldstein, Judith, interviewer.
• Historians--United States--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Lerner, Gerda, 1920---Interviews.
• New School for Social Research (New York, N.Y.)
• Oral histories.
• Sarah Lawrence College.
• United States--Race relations.
• Women's rights.
• Women's studies.
• Women college teachers--Interviews.
• Women historians--United States--Interviews.