Oral history interview with Lindsley Kimball 1980
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- Name
- Kimball, Lindsley, 1894-1992 (Interviewee)
- Goodson, Martia (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Lindsley Kimball 1980
- Abstract
- Vice president United Service Organization 1942; director and vice president Central Education Board, Rockefeller Foundation, 1950s; member board United Negro College Fund: 1944 and 1955 fund raising campaigns, convocations, women's committee, role of John F. Kennedy in 1963 fund raising campaign, location of headquarters, relationship with Urban League, effect of 1954 Brown v. Board of Education d ecision, impact of civil rights movement, relationship with college presidents, problems of cooperation between colleges, quality of education at colleges, philosophy of fund raising and philanthropy; John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
- Collection Name
- United Negro College Fund project
- Subjects
- Executives; Educational fund raising; Kimball, Lindsley, 1894-1992; United Negro College Fund; Rockefeller Foundation
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1980
- Note (Biographical)
- Foundation executive.
- Note
- Interviewed by Martia Goodson on December 15, 1980.
- Note (Provenance)
- Lindsley Kimball, Gift 1981
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
- Catalog Record
- 13500704
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-erzp-1g44
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.