Left-wing political activist and progressive leaders in the Berkeley Co-op : oral history transcript / an interview conducted by Robert G. Larsen of Moraga, California in 1988-1989. Transcribed by Berkeley Oral History Project of the Berkeley Historical Society, 1990.

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Left-wing political activist and progressive leaders in the Berkeley Co-op : oral history transcript / an interview conducted by Robert G. Larsen of Moraga, California in 1988-1989. Transcribed by Berkeley Oral History Project of the Berkeley Historical Society, 1990.

Interview covers childhood & education; law career; loyalty issues and radical reaction in the Roosevelt-Truman Era; Bay Area Funeral Society; Berkeley Co-op; resigning from the Communist Party; participation in local (Berkeley & Alameda County politics; problems of left-wing attorneys.

[ix], 133 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

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