The Civil Rights History Project: Survey of Collections and Repositories

Daniel Levine papers

Repository: Bowdoin College Library. George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives

Collection Description (CRHP): Daniel Levine wrote the book, "Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement" (Rutgers University Press, 1999).

Collection Description (Extant): Professional papers of Daniel Levine including: subject files; research notes; typescripts of papers and talks drafted and presented (ca. 1977-1982); oral history interviews (transcripts and recordings) by Daniel Levine concerning Bayard Rustin, as well as interviews with Bayard Rustin by others; and Bowdoin College materials including committee and Department of History records, lecture notes and other teaching materials.

Daniel Levine, the Thomas Brackett Reed Professor of History and Political Science at Bowdoin College, was born in New York City on December 31, 1934. He received his A.B. from Antioch College in 1956 and his A.M. (1957) and Ph.D. (1961) from Northwestern University. Levine joined the Bowdoin College faculty in the history department in 1963; he retired in 2006.

Date(s): ca. 1960-2005

Digital Status: No

Extent: 21 linear ft.

Language: English

Interviewees: Bayard Rustin, Robert Ascher, James Farmer, Alan Gartner, Rachelle Horowitz, William Sutherland, Robert Moses, Courtland Cox, Charles Bloomstein, Carl Gershman, David Peterson, Ernest Green, Don Slaiman, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Joseph Lowery, George Houser

Rights (Extant): No restrictions.

Subjects:

African American civil rights workers
Gay activists
Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987

Genres:

Interviews
Manuscripts
Sound recordings
Speeches
Transcripts