Reminiscences of Michael Wallace : oral history, 1983.

Biographical Note

Historian

Scope and Contents

Childhood in Brooklyn, San Francisco; Columbia undergraduate, 1960; Columbia graduate student, 1968; involvement with anti-war movement; 1963 March on Washington, voter registration project in South Carolina; Hamilton Hall occupation; Fayerweather Hall occupation; Columbia's plan to build gym in Morningside Park; student relations with the Harlem community; contrasts between new and old left; student demands; membership in central strike committee; student leadership styles; first marriage; women's liberation; student/faculty relations; relationship with Professor Richard Hofstadter; effects of period on current work; formation of Mid-Atlantic Historian's Organization and Radical Historians ̀caucus; current projects; social responsibility of historians

Subjects

• Civil rights--United States.
• Columbia University--Strike.
• Feminism.
• Historians--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Lorini, Allesandra, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Social history--1960-1970.
• Student movements.
• Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements.
• Wallace, Mike, 1942---Interviews.

Access Conditions

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