Dr. Howard Kirschenbaum Oral History
Object number2021.001.0107
Date11/16/2021
ClassificationsOral Histories
Oral history interview subject
Dr. Howard Kirschenbaum
Oral history interviewer
Stephen Fagin
ObjectOral history
Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumBorn digital (.m2ts file), Born digital (.m4a file), Born digital (.mp4 file)
DimensionsDuration: 62 Minutes
DescriptionVideotaped 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.
Curatorial CommentaryHoward 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
