Oral history interview with Gerda Lerner, 1978-1981.

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Oral history interview with Gerda Lerner, 1978-1981.

1978-1981

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/4075633

Education and imprisonment in Vienna, 1938; emigration to United States, 1939, unskilled jobs; New School for Social Research, B.A., 1963; Columbia University, PhD., 1966; skeptical acceptance as womens historian; raising family in an integrated neighborhood; involvement with women and labor organizations; screenwriting "Black Like Me"; organization and presidency of Coordinating Committee on Women in the Historical Professions, 1969; organization of women's history program at Sarah Lawrence, 1970s; effect of experience on intellectual development; complexities of documenting female experience and need to restructure methods of historical inquiry; goals and responsiblities as a teacher.

Transcript 120 leaves. Tape 1 reel/ 2 cassettes. Miscellaneous papers relating to oral history.

eng, Latn

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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