Oral history interview with Rosalyn Fraad Baxandall

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Oral history interview with Rosalyn Fraad Baxandall

1989

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/8600916

Background and childhood: born in New York, learned communist ideals in the household; education: Hunter High School, class of 1957, Smith College, University of Wisconsin, undergraduate, Columbia School of Social Work, 1971; career: professor of women's history, Women's Studies, Queens College, Columbia University, Old Westbury; themes: rebellion during youth, interest in France and French lifestyle, travels in Europe during 1960s, involvement in student movements and political organizations: Students of a Democratic Society [SDS], Northern Student Movement [NSM], Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee [SNCC], Mobilization for Youth [MFY], Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell [WITCH], New York Radical Women, Red Stockings, Women's Liberation Movement [WLM], role of women in NSM, arrests resulting from demonstrations, establishment of daycare center for MFY, community activism in Harlem, organization of rent strikes, welfare strikes, relationships between civil rights movement and women's movement, issues of sex and abortion in women's movement, media response to women's movement, European women's movement, emergence of lesbian rights movement from women's movement, family reminiscences, peer and colleague reminiscences.

transcript: 115 leaves; Sound recording: 2 audiocassettes

eng, Latn

Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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