doi:10.7916/d8-7n1s-qn91Oral history interview with Nick Salvatore, 2000Salvatore, Nickoral historiesmixed materialCivil rights movements--History--20th century.--United StatesCivil rights demonstrations--United StatesPeace movements--History--20th century.--United StatesCampsUnited States Race relations 20th centurySalvatore, NickCongress of Racial Equality. Brooklyn ChapterStudents for a Democratic Society (U.S.)Salvatore discusses his Catholic, working-class upbringing in Brooklyn, New York and its impact on his sociopolitical outlook. He describes the strength of his mother, a secretary responsible for three children after the sudden death of her husband in 1945, and his enrollment at Brooklyn Preparatory School. Salvatore describes working as a messenger on Wall Street and his fellow messengers, anarchists who first exposed him to radical politics. He describes his attendance of a 1963 sit-in at City Hall. Salvatore describes Brooklyn CORE and his work as a depot helper with the Teamsters from 1963 to 1965. In the next segment of the interview, Salvatore describes his involvement with Brooklyn CORE and the Harlem Parents Committee, which organized around the New York School Boycotts. He also recalls his co-founding of Patterson Camp, a summer camp in Bucks County, Pennsylvania for Harlem youth in the summer of 1965. Salvatore next focuses on his experience with the draft, antiwar organizing, and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). He details his qualms with the tactics employed by SDS, and explains his decision to stop engaging with SDS after a demonstration in 1967. He discusses his time at University of California, Berkeley Graduate School and his advisor, Leon F. Litwack. He describes his writing and teaching career at Cornell University, as well as his travels in Mississippi, and teaching American history