Reminiscences of William Taylor 1988
- Name
- Taylor, William L., 1931-2010 (Interviewee)
- Chafe, William H., 1942- (Interviewer)
- Title
- Reminiscences of William Taylor 1988
- Abstract
- Law school with Lowenstein at Yale; Adlai Stevenson presidential campaign; contacts with Americans for Democratic Action; work with National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Legal Defense Fund; recollections of 1960 presidential race; Freedom Summer in Mississippi; Civil Rights Commission during Kennedy administration; suspicion of Lowenstein by Student Nonviolent Coordinat ing Committee as representative of "establishment;" anti-communism and Lowenstein; Dump Johnson movement and 1968 presidential campaign; Lowenstein's congressional campaign; Lowenstein's congressional tenure; personal relationship with Lowenstein
- Collection Name
- Allard K. Lowenstein project
- Subjects
- Lawyers; African Americans--Civil rights; Political participation; Anti-communist movements; United States Politics and government 1945-1989; Taylor, William L., 1931-2010; Lowenstein, Allard K; Americans for Democratic Action; NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund; United States Commission on Civil Rights; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.); Democratic Party (U.S.); United States. Congress
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1988
- Note (Biographical)
- Attorney.
- Note
- Interviewed by William Chafe on June 2, 1988
- Note (Provenance)
- William Taylor, Gift 1989
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
- Catalog Record
- 13628649
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-m117-f784
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.