Oral History Interview: Jeffrey Schachner (1384)
Subject
Revolutionary Youth Movement
Kent State University
Black Students' Strike
Wapinduzi Weusi
Nathan Hare
Willie Edwards
Black Thursday
VISTA
Volunteer in Service to America
National Student Association
SDS
Students for a Democratic Society
The War at Home
Dow Chemical Riot
UCA
University Community Action Party
Paul Soglin
John Coatsworth
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http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1793/68991Type
Recording, oral
Description
In his May 2014 interview with Troy Reeves, Jeffrey Schachner details his remembrances of his undergraduate years at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with special reference to his activism with SDS during the Dow Riot and the Black Students? Strike of 1969. Schachner expressed his deep concern that the strike be remembered as a pivotal part of the larger civil rights movement of the 1960s, and contextualized many of the key participants in these events. This interview was conducted for inclusion into the UW-Madison Oral History Program.
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