Oral history interview with Abraham C. Keller, Jan. 19, 1989.

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Oral history interview with Abraham C. Keller, Jan. 19, 1989.

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Keller reflects on his early education, encountering anti-Semitism in Ohio during the 1930s, and his membership in the Young Communist League in 1936. He discusses the Velde Committee, which kept him under surveillance, and being refused a passport because he was considered a member of the "Communist Conspiracy". He also mentions receiving a request to become an informer for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Keller talks about his membership in Kadima and the Hillel Foundation at the University of Washington. He represented the latter in the Community Relations Council of the Jewish Federation, where he feels he was unfairly treated. Also discussed are the University of Washington's refusal to grant Robert Oppenheimer the right to speak on campus and Keller's experiences in West Africa.

Sound recordings: 1 sound cassette : analog, mono.Transcript: 23 leaves.

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