Dr. Howard Kirschenbaum Oral History

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Dr. Howard Kirschenbaum Oral History

Videotaped oral history interview with Dr. Howard Kirschenbaum. As a college student, Kirschenbaum participated in sit-in demonstrations in Maryland and attended the 1963 March on Washington. He volunteered for the Mississippi Freedom Summer project in 1964 and was briefly jailed. More than fifty years later, Kirschenbaum was part of a group of 1960s civil rights activists who returned to Mississippi to assist with voter registration in 2018. Interview conducted via Zoom on November 16, 2021 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is one hour and one minute long.

Object Details
Object title:

Dr. Howard Kirschenbaum Oral History

Date:

11/16/2021

Medium:

Born digital (.m2ts file), Born digital (.m4a file), Born digital (.mp4 file)

Dimensions:

Duration: 62 Minutes

Credit line:

Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2021.001.0107

Curatorial Note:

Howard Kirschenbaum is professor emeritus of counseling and human development at the University of Rochester in New York. He is also the former executive director of the National Humanistic Education Center, which he founded in the 1970s, and the National Coalition for Democracy in Education. In addition, as briefly mentioned during this interview, for more than fifty years Dr. Kirschenbaum has been actively involved in the historic preservation and conservation of the six-million-acre Adirondack Park in northeastern New York. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator

Dr. Howard Kirschenbaum Oral History

Videotaped oral history interview with Dr. Howard Kirschenbaum. As a college student, Kirschenbaum participated in sit-in demonstrations in Maryland and attended the 1963 March on Washington. He volunteered for the Mississippi Freedom Summer project in 1964 and was briefly jailed. More than fifty years later, Kirschenbaum was part of a group of 1960s civil rights activists who returned to Mississippi to assist with voter registration in 2018. Interview conducted via Zoom on November 16, 2021 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is one hour and one minute long.

Object Details
Object title:

Dr. Howard Kirschenbaum Oral History

Date:

11/16/2021

Terms:

Interviews

Civil rights

Oral histories

Protests

Student

March on Washington

Arrest

Voting

Maryland

Washington, D.C.

Mississippi

Civil Rights and Social Activism (OHC)

Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)

Medium:

Born digital (.m2ts file), Born digital (.m4a file), Born digital (.mp4 file)

Dimensions:

Duration: 62 Minutes

Credit line:

Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2021.001.0107

Curatorial Note:

Howard Kirschenbaum is professor emeritus of counseling and human development at the University of Rochester in New York. He is also the former executive director of the National Humanistic Education Center, which he founded in the 1970s, and the National Coalition for Democracy in Education. In addition, as briefly mentioned during this interview, for more than fifty years Dr. Kirschenbaum has been actively involved in the historic preservation and conservation of the six-million-acre Adirondack Park in northeastern New York. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator