Background on Dean Albertson
A long-time faculty member at UMass Amherst, Dean Albertson was an historian of the twentieth century United States with a specialty in oral history. A veteran of the Second World War, Albertson received his BA from University of California Berkeley (1942) and doctorate from Columbia (1955), joining the Department of History at UMass in 1965 after several years at Brooklyn College. The author of books on Dwight Eisenhower, Claude Wickard (Franklin Roosevelt's Secretary of Agriculture), and the student movements of the 1960s, Albertson was interested throughout his career in new methods in research and teaching history. He died at his home in Longmeadow, Mass., on March 31, 1989, at the age of 68.
Scope of collection
Dean Albertson's History 384 class at UMass Amherst, required students to conduct oral histories relating to a theme in contemporary U.S. history chosen each year. Between 1975 and 1977, Albertson's students interviewed social activists of the 1960s and early 1970s, participants and observers in the North End riots of 1975 in Springfield, Massachusetts, and war and nuclear power resisters. The collection includes transcripts of 15 interviews conducted during this period, as well as the students' papers, which put the transcripts into context.
Inventory
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Person Interviewed
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Interviewer/Author
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Resulting paper and/or topic
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Albertson, Dean
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Robert Rossi
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The Springfield Community and the death of Rafael Lecodet.
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Barreto, Jose
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Edward Hannabury
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The Springfield North End Community and the riots of1975.
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Brid, Frederico
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Donald Pratt
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The North End Community and the Springfield Riots of August, 1975
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Dorman, Franklin A.
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Julie Melrose
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In search of "The Enemy": The Westover Air Force Base Demonstrations, Spring 1972.
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Fauntleroy, Douglas
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Steven Landau
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From Selma to Montgomery, March,1965 (civil rights movement march)
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Freedman, Peggy
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Jeff Cohen
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The beginning of the Hampden county Civil Liberties Union, 1946-55
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Gonzalaz, Mariano Dalou
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Michael Ryan
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Attica (prison revolt)
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Lawton, Richard
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Bill Henning
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Accounts of the Tragedy of the Vietnam War
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Lovejoy, Sam
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Kent Robinson
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The Saboteur (toppling the Northeast Utilities meteorological tower used to plan for nuclear power station in Montague, MA), 1974
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Rivera, Barbara
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Laurence E. Munn
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A Whole Combined Thing (Vietnam Peace Action Day Moratorium and Welfare Rights Organization Protest in Springfield, 1969)
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Roy, Sue
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Mitchell Guild
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The North End Riots as seen by the Springfield Press
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Rudolph, Leslie
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Kevin Homewood
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The Progressive Americans (Third Cuban Brigade, 1970)
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Sousa, Gerald
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Donald Parker
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Prison Reform in the Massachusetts Prison System: A Sociological Gimmick (restrictions)
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Stephen Romano
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Weatherman: Bringing the War Home
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Weissman, Jon
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James Gagne
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Springfield Area Movement for a Democratic Society: A Brief History
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Whitney, Ron
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Laurence E. Munn
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A whole Combined Thing (Vietnam Peace Action Day Moratorium and Welfare Rights Organization Protest in Springfield 1969)
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Administrative information
Search terms
Subjects
- Antinuclear movement--Massachusetts
- Attica Correctional Facility
- Civil rights--Massachusetts--Hampden County
- Demonstrations--Massachusetts--Chicopee
- Hampden County Civil Liberties Union--History
- History--Study and teaching (Higher)--Massachusetts--Amherst
- Lecodet, Rafael
- Oral history
- Police shootings--Massachusetts--Springfield
- Political activists--Massachusetts--Interviews
- Prison riots--New York (State)--Attica
- Puerto Ricans--Massachusetts--Springfield
- Riots--Massachusetts--Springfield
- Selma-Montgomery Rights March, 1965
- Springfield (Mass.)--History
- Springfield (Mass.)--Race relations
- Springfield (Mass.)--Social conditions
- Springfield Area Movement for a Democratic Society--History
- Venceremos Brigade
- Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975--Protest movements --Massachusetts--Springfield
- Weatherman (Organization)
- Welfare rights movement--Massachusetts--Springfield
- Westover Air Force Base (Mass.)
Contributors
- Albertson, Dean, 1920-, collector [main entry]
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