Reminiscences of Temma Kaplan : oral history, 2005.

Biographical Note

Retired administrative assistant.

Scope and Contents

Born Brooklyn, NY; career: political and labor activist, author of Crazy for Democracy: Women in Grassroots Movements, professor of history at Rutgers University, oral historian; 9/11: at home on Upper West Side, realization of event through television coverage; Columbia University 9/11 Oral History Project interviewing experiences: effect on undocumented workers, anti-Muslim bias, interviews as collective mourning ritual, discussion of social class, strategies to enable storytelling.

Subjects

• Interviews.
• Kaplan, Temma, 1942---Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Personal narratives.
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.

Access Conditions

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