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Elliot Linzer, Full Interview

Collection: Queens Memory Collection at the Archives at Queens Library: Elliot Linzer
Date: Time Period: 1946 - 2016; 2016-04-08; Interview recorded: April 8 2016 Material: Digital audio recording made using Zoom H2 digital recorder. Dimension: Total running time: 1:04:46
Creator: Elliot Linzer interviewed by Samantha Lee Identifier: aql:22090 linzer-elliot-full

Description: Elliot Linzer is an alumnus of Queens College and a long-time resident of Queens. In this interview, he talks mainly about his political work as a student at Queens College, his work in the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and his participation in the civil rights and war resistance movements. He covers his years at The New School and the CUNY Graduate Center, where he studied sociology. Toward the end of the interview, Linzer speaks briefly about his childhood and background in Rosedale, and how the neighborhood he lives in now , College Point, looks today.

Collection : aql:20455; aql:22177

Creator : Elliot Linzer interviewed by Samantha Lee

Date : Time Period: 1946 - 2016; 2016-04-08; Interview recorded: April 8 2016

Summary/Description : Elliot Linzer is an alumnus of Queens College and a long-time resident of Queens. In this interview, he talks mainly about his political work as a student at Queens College, his work in the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and his participation in the civil rights and war resistance movements. He covers his years at The New School and the CUNY Graduate Center, where he studied sociology. Toward the end of the interview, Linzer speaks briefly about his childhood and background in Rosedale, and how the neighborhood he lives in now , College Point, looks today.

Subject : War resistance movements; Civil disobedience; Civil rights; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Political activists

Rights : Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.

Coverage : Locations discussed: Queens, NY Queens (New York, N.Y.)

Type : Oral history

Format : Digital audio recording made using Zoom H2 digital recorder.; Total running time: 1:04:46

Identifier : aql:22090 linzer-elliot-full

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War resistance movements; Civil disobedience; Civil rights; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Political activists

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