Reminiscences of Carol Brightman: oral history, 1984
Abstract
First conscious political act, Vassar, B.A., 1961, University of Chicago graduate studies: Congress of Racial Equality, teaching Central YMCA College, documentary film work "The College", Cuban Missile Crisis; Vietnam War awareness awakens: family, political influences, Catholicism; NYU graduate studies: assistantship, radicalization, termination; "Viet Report" development: marriage, political netw orking in New York City, Vietnam War documentation, Movement, wartime America; travel in Vietnam with Bertrand Russell War Crimes Commission; hometown ostracization; development as public speaker, media becomes radicalization tool; divorce, end of Viet Report; "Leviathan" development, Second Venceremos Brigade: commune work, political activism; contact with Students for a Democratic Society: Columbia, travel to Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, Vietnamese foreign policy; American social militarization: Flint, Chicago, 1968; life in Berkeley, California commune: "Media Collective," development of feminist consciousness, Women's Health Collective, Weathermen; Massachusetts: first child, '71-'74; New York: work for "Seven Days" and "Working Papers", Brooklyn, community teaching experiences; attitude toward "old left" and post Vietnam experiences. Editor, with Sandra Levinson, "The Venceremos Brigade"
Women political activists; Radicalism; Student movements; Students--Political activity; Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Anti-war movements; Feminism; Brightman, Carol
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
1984
Physical Description
129 pages
Note (Biographical)
Political activist
Note
Interviewed by Ronald J. Grele on December 12, 1984