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Interview with Dr. Marvin Surkin

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Contributor

Surkin, Marvin ; McKiernan, Stephen

Description

Dr. Marvin Surkin is a scholar, author, and specialist in comparative urban politics and social change. He worked at the center of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers in Detroit. Dr. Surkin is the author of Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from New York University.

Date

2010-09-10

Rights

In copyright

Date Modified

2018-03-29

Is Part Of

McKiernan Interviews

Extent

106:59

Date of Interview

2010-09-10

Interviewer

Stephen McKiernan

Interviewee

Marvin Surkin

Biographical Text

Dr. Marvin Surkin is a scholar, author, and specialist in comparative urban politics and social change. He worked at the center of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers in Detroit. Dr. Surkin is the author of Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from New York University.

Duration

106:59

Language

English

Digital Publisher

BInghamton University Libraries

Digital Format

audio/mp4

Original Format

1 Microcassette

Material Type

Sound

Interview Format

Audio

Subject LCSH

Scholars; Authors; Social change; Metropolitan government; Surkin, Marvin--Interviews

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Keywords

Baby boom generation; Assassination of John F. Kennedy; TV in the Nineteen fifties; Segregation; Civil Rights Movement; Vietnam Memorial; Kent State; Jackson State; Watergate; Summer of Love; Dwight D. Eisenhower; Republicans; Vietnam War; Detroit Riots; Dr. Martin Luther King; Black Power movement; Detroit in 1960s; Black Manifesto

Accessibility

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Files

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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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Citation

“Interview with Dr. Marvin Surkin,” Digital Collections, accessed January 12, 2025, https://omeka.binghamton.edu/omeka/items/show/946.