Oral history interview with Sarah Elbert, 1976
- 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.