| Title: |
Reminiscences of Peter Shapiro
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| RLIN number: |
NXCP90-A11
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
Columbia University. Oral History Research Office
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| Collection: |
Student Movements of the 1960s project
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| Description: |
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,; 520 8 |apolice 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.
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| Extent: |
Transcript: 203 leaves, Tape: 5 cassettes
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| Restrictions: |
Access: Open. Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1986. Permission required to cite, quote, and reproduce. Contact repository for information.
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1984 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Shapiro, Peter (2)
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker occupation: |
Political activist
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| Document date: |
1984
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| Interviewer: |
Grele, Ronald J.
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| Organizations discussed: |
Columbia University, New York, NY; Congress of Racial Equality, New York, NY; University of California, Berkeley, CA
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| Historical events discussed: |
Vietnam Conflict, 1955-1975
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| Locations discussed: |
Asia; North America; United States; Vietnam
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
African American student movements; Asia; Civil rights--United States; Columbia University, New York, NY; Congress of Racial Equality, New York, NY; Feminism; North America; Oral history; Student strikes; Students; United States; University of California, Berkeley, CA; Vietnam; Vietnam Conflict, 1955-1975
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| Topics discussed - Other terms: |
Shapiro, Peter; Subculture; Underground press; Vietnam Conflict, 1961-1975--Protest movements
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0021064-16503
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