Name
Elbert, Sarah (Interviewee)
Klejment, Alice, 1918-1988 (Interviewer)
Title
Oral history interview with Sarah Elbert, 1976
Abstract
New York City; education: Cornell University; family life, divorce, Evanston, Illinois; influence of A.S. Neill's book Summerhill; women's changing role in the 1960s; active in Unitarian Church; civil rights: Congress of Racial Equality, CORE, Mississippi Summer; peace movement: Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy; communal living; return to Ithaca, completion of undergraduate degree, 1965; involve ment with SDS, Students for a Democratic Society; Master of Arts in Teaching, Cornell, 1968: focus on Afro-American History; social studies teacher, Dewitt Junior High School: controversy over refusal to salute the flag, the teaching of Richard Wright's Black Boy; anti-Vietnam War organizing: burning of draft cards, Sheep's Head Meadow, 1967, burning of draft files, Catonsville, 1968, marries draft dodger; personal and political relationships; black take-over of the Straight, 1969; influences of Martin Luther King, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Benjamin M. Spock, Dan Berrigan; Catholic presence in Ithaca peace movement; Freedom Seder, 1969; reflections on Cornell contribution to movements of the 1960s
Collection Name
Student movements of the 1960s project
Subjects
Historians; Elbert, Sarah
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
1976
Physical Description
96 pages
Note (Biographical)
Sarah Elbert (1937-) was a Marxist historian and professor of history at SUNY Binghamton
Note
Interviewed by Ann Klejment on April 8, 1976
Note (Provenance)
Sarah Elbert Gift, 1986
Language
English
Library Location
Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content
Catalog Record
13803413
Also In
Oral History Archives at Columbia
Time-Based Media
Time-Based Media
Persistent URL
https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-2vm3-n627
Related URLs
Available digital content for this interview.