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Interview with Dr. Ralph Young

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Date of Interview

ND

Interviewer

Stephen McKiernan

Interviewee

Dr. Ralph Young

Biographical Text

Dr. Ralph Young is a history professor at Temple University where his expertise centers on dissent and protest movements in America, social history, and recent U.S. history. On-campus he runs a weekly teach-in series on historical content of contemporary controversial issues. He is the recipient of a Fulbright fellowship to teach Dissent in America at the University of Rome. He led seminars on Dissent and Protest Movements at Charles University, Prague, and Tubingen University, Germany. Most recently he was a "Scholar In Residence" at the Chautauqua Institution and the winner of six major teaching awards at Temple. He is the author of Dissent in America: The Voices That Shaped The Nation, and Make Art Not War: Political Protest Posters of the 20th Century.  

Duration

1:26:32

Language

English

Digital Publisher

Binghamton University Libraries

Digital Format

audio/mp4

Original Format

MicroCassette

Material Type

Sound

Interview Format

Audio

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Keywords

1960s; Assassination of John F. Kennedy; Baby boomers; Activism; Vietnam; Society; Civil Rights Movement; New York City; Attitudes; Marriage; Sex; Changes in Society.

Accessibility

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Files

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Item Information

About this Collection

Collection Description

Stephen McKiernan's collection of interviews includes more than two hundred interviews with prominent figures of the 1960s, which were collected between the mid-1990s and 2010s. The collection provides narratives of people who were actively involved in or witnessed events in the 1960s, an era which spurred profound cultural and… More

Citation

“Interview with Dr. Ralph Young,” Digital Collections, accessed October 30, 2024, https://omeka.binghamton.edu/omeka/items/show/1913.