/internal/media/dispatcher/73784/fullDr. Howard Kirschenbaum Oral History11/16/2021Duration: 62 MinutesBorn digital (.m2ts file), Born digital (.m4a file), Born digital (.mp4 file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2021.001.01070Videotaped 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 over Zoom on November 16, 2021 by Curator Stephen Fagin. The interview is 1 hour and 2 minutes long.
Technical note: This interview consists of a Zoom audio-video file, an isolated Zoom combined audio track, and HD video reference of Stephen Fagin in 501 Elm board room.
The video attached to this record is an excerpt. The entire interview is available in our Reading Room to on-site researchers or by submitting a Rights & Reproductions Request Form.Oral Histories658090E-100E-1072542Oral history0E-10Videotaped 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.InterviewsCivil rightsOral historiesProtestsStudentMarch on WashingtonArrestVotingMarylandWashington, D.C.MississippiCivil Rights and Social Activism (OHC)Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)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