Wisconsin Labor Oral History Project: David Sigman Interview, 1981-1982

Contents List

Container Title
No.   1
Kenneth Calkins
Scope and Content Note: Concerns the origins and early development of the Student Peace Union and political activism on campuses.
No.   2
Philip Altbach
Scope and Content Note: Recollections of his background as it relates to the development of his personal politics; discussion of ideological differences between various student political groups; information on the Young Socialist Alliance, the Student Peace Union, and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
No.   3
James B. Gilbert
Scope and Content Note: Discussion of the development of his political views, a trip to Cuba, and student life and politics at Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, 1957-1961, and at the University of Wisconsin, 1961-1966.
No.   4
Robb K. Burlage
Scope and Content Note: Concerns student politics at the University of Texas, 1955-1959, and Students for a Democratic Society in the Boston area, 1961-1963.
No.   5
Eric Foner
Scope and Content Note: Concerns student politics at Columbia University, 1959-1963.
No.   6
Dan Georgakas
Scope and Content Note: Discusses the development of his radical political philosophy, his skepticism on a policy of non-violence, the importance of underground newspapers, and other topics.
No.   7
Frederick Heinze
Scope and Content Note: Concerns the civil rights movement at Southern Illinois University, Cairo, the difference in his attitude towards blacks when living in the South and in the North, and his involvement in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
No.   8
Richard Flacks
Scope and Content Note: Concerns his involvement in Students for a Democratic Society, 1962-1963, and the civil rights movement.
No.   9
George Brosi
Scope and Content Note: Tells of Carleton College student politics, 1960-1965, and Students for a Democratic Society.
No.   10
Peter Wiley
Scope and Content Note: Describes his experiences as a political activist.
No.   11
David Eakins
Scope and Content Note: Talks about his beginnings in the campus political scene, political writers he studied, and the journal Studies on the Left.
No.   12
James Hawley
Scope and Content Note: Discusses student politics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1962-1966.
No.   13
Robert L. and Pamela P. Allen
Scope and Content Note: Discuss their involvement in the civil rights movement at Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia, and at Carleton College, 1960-1965.
No.   14
Eugene Dennis, Jr.
Scope and Content Note: Speaks of political activity at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1960-1965, including mention of Socialist Party work, election activities, and anti-war activities.
No.   15
Paul Breines
Scope and Content Note: Discusses student life and politics at the University of Wisconsin, 1959-1963, and at Cornell University, 1963-1965.
No.   16
Michael J. Miller
Scope and Content Note: Discusses the development of the political party S.L.A.T.E. and the Bay Area Friends of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
No.   17-18
Joel S. Geier
Scope and Content Note: Discusses student politics at the University of Chicago in the late 1950s, the Young People's Socialist League, Independent Socialist Clubs, and the Free Speech Movement.
No.   19
Steve Johnson
Scope and Content Note: Talks of student politics at Harvard, 1960-1965, and of political leaders and scientists working for the government.
No.   20
Terence Cannon
Scope and Content Note: Concerns student life at Cornell, 1957-1961, the 1963 March on Washington, and the origins of The Movement newspaper.
No.   21
Jesse Lemisch
Scope and Content Note: Describes student life and politics at Yale University in the late 1950s and the Student League for Industrial Democracy.
No.   22
Arthur MacEwan
Scope and Content Note: Discusses student life and politics at the University of Chicago, 1959-1963.
No.   23
Mark Naison
Scope and Content Note: Discusses student politics at Columbia University.
No.   24
John Thomas Condit
Scope and Content Note: Concerns Young People's Socialist League activities in the late 1950s and early 1960s and civil rights work.
No.   25
Robert S. Gabriner
Scope and Content Note: Discusses political activities at Cornell University during the late 1950s and early 1960s.
No.   26
David Steinberg
Scope and Content Note: Talks about the influences on his politics.
No.   27
Miriam Feingold
Scope and Content Note: Discusses her political activities at Swarthmore College, 1959-1963.
No.   28
Tim Wohlforth
Scope and Content Note: Discusses his involvement with the Young People's Socialist League, the Socialist Workers Party, the Socialist Party, and S.D.A.
No.   29
Michael D. Nolan
Scope and Content Note: Talks about student life and politics at Columbia University, 1960-1964.
No.   30
Michael Parker
Scope and Content Note: Discusses the Student Peace Union, 1959-1961.
No.   31
Michael Ferber
Scope and Content Note: Describes his political activities at Cornell, participation in Freedom Rides, and other experiences.
No.   32
Donald Bluestone
Scope and Content Note: Discusses his parents' influence on his political ideas and his activities at Cornell University, 1957-1961, and at the University of Wisconsin, 1961-1965.
No.   33
Joe Griffith
Scope and Content Note: Discusses his activities at Cornell, participation in Freedom Rides, organizing a Congressional campaign, and anti-war activities.
No.   34
Paul Buhle
Scope and Content Note: Talks about his political and civil rights activities in Champaign, Illinois, 1962-1966.
No.   35
Paul Richards
Scope and Content Note: Concerns his political activities, involvement in S.L.A.T.E., and his experiences as the University of California, Berkeley, 1961-1966, and the University of Wisconsin, 1967-1969.
No.   36
Larry Faulkner
Scope and Content Note: Discusses his political activities at Cornell University and elsewhere.
No.   37
Michael Meeropol
Scope and Content Note: Speaks of politics during the early 1960s at Cornell University.
No.   38
James W. Russell
Scope and Content Note: Describes his opinions on civil rights, his involvement in Students for a Democratic Society, and publishing a series of leaflets.
No.   39
Brian Peterson
Scope and Content Note: Discusses politics at the University of Iowa, 1960-1962, and Drake University, 1962-1964, and civil rights activities.
No.   40
Jack Weinberg
Scope and Content Note: Concerns the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Congress of Racial Equality at the University of California, Berkeley.
No.   41
David Wellman
Scope and Content Note: Discusses his political work at Wayne State University, 1958-1962, his part in the start of SDS and in SNCC, his feelings toward the communism of his father, S.L.A.T.E., and activities in the Berkeley area.
No.   42
Heather Tobis Booth
Scope and Content Note: Talks about her teaching at Freedom Schools and her feelings about women's positions in the social movement and in universities.
No.   43
Paul G. and Karen Bigelow Faler
Scope and Content Note: Discuss political activities at Southern Methodist University and civil rights work there.
No.   44
Evan Metcalf
Scope and Content Note: Discusses his political work at Swarthmore College, 1963-1965, and the Cleveland Community Project, 1965.
No.   45
Joel Shufro
Scope and Content Note: Concerns his campus political involvement at Shimer College, Mt. Carroll, Illinois, 1960-1962, and the University of Chicago, 1962-1965, including discussion of Cuba, atom bomb testing, and Students for a Democratic Society.
No.   46
David McReynolds
Scope and Content Note: Discusses his political involvement at Antioch College, 1954-1958, and other campuses, including mention of HUAC, the Young People's Socialist League, and national politics.