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Interview with Mark Rudd

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Contributor

Rudd, Mark ; McKiernan, Stephen

Description

Mark Rudd is a political organizer, author, math instructor, and anti-war activist who was part of the Weather Underground group. Rudd attended Columbia University and became a member of Students for a Democratic Society in 1963. He got his commitment to "fight U.S. imperialism" by watching the revolutionary movement in Cuba. Mr. Rudd was a leader of the campus protests at Columbia University in April 1968.

Date

2010-02-01

Rights

In copyright

Date Modified

2018-03-29

Is Part Of

McKiernan Interviews

Extent

175:20

Date of Interview

2010-02-01

Interviewer

Stephen McKiernan

Interviewee

Mark Rudd

Biographical Text

Mark Rudd is a political organizer, author, math instructor,  and anti-war activist who was part of the Weather Underground group. Rudd attended Columbia University and became a member of Students for a Democratic Society in 1963. He got his commitment to "fight U.S. imperialism" by watching the revolutionary movement in Cuba. Mr. Rudd was a leader of the campus protests at Columbia University in April 1968.

Duration

175:20

Language

English

Digital Publisher

Binghamton University Libraries

Digital Format

audio/mp4

Original Format

2 Microcassettes

Material Type

Sound

Interview Format

Audio

Subject LCSH

Peace movements—United States; Authors; Weather Underground Organization; Political activists--United States; Rudd, Mark--Interviews

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Keywords

Westchester University; Bayard Rustin; Baby boom generation; Kent State; Segregation; Utopia in Four Movements (film); Decolonization; Nonviolence; Black power movement; Howl (poem); Jews; WWII; Germans; Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; George Jackson; Students for a Democratic Society.

Accessibility

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Mark Rudd.jpg

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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

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“Interview with Mark Rudd,” Digital Collections, accessed April 19, 2024, https://omeka.binghamton.edu/omeka/items/show/937.