Background
Morrison, Joan was born on December 20, 1922 in Hinsdale, Illinois, United States. Daughter of Werner Lars and Neva (Lewis) Wehlen.
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From Camelot to Kent State: The Sixties Experience in the Words of Those Who Lived it
(No decade in American history continues to fascinate us l...)
No decade in American history continues to fascinate us like the Sixties. No decade combines such hopeful idealism with such violence and disillusionment, or witnesses such profound political, cultural, and personal upheavals. And no decade benefits more from being seen through the eyes of those who experienced firsthand the shocks and revelations that still reverberate today. Newly revised and updated, with an expanded introduction, From Camelot to Kent State tells the story of ten of the most dramatic years in the life of America-and of fifty-nine men and women who lived through those years. In their own words, civil rights activists, soldiers who fought in Vietnam, anti-war protesters, student radicals, feminists, Peace Corps workers, and many others take us inside the major events and movements of the period. Far from a dispassionate history of the Sixties, these stories bristle with the tension and immediacy of lived experience. How did it feel to wake up into step out of a helicopter into a Vietnamese jungle; to ride south on a freedom bus, to march on the Pentagon; to take over a college administration building; to hear Jimi Hendrix play the national anthem at Woodstock; to attend the first consciousness-raising meetings for women at the Bread and Roses café? This captivating oral history will let you know. Included are first-hand accounts from both the famous-including Eldridge Cleaver, Abbie Hoffman, Philip Berrigan, and John Lewis-and the ordinary men and women who were swept up in major historical events, From Camelot to Kent State offers a uniquely valuable view of a decade that forever changed the history and consciousness of America.
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American Mosaic: The Immigrant Experience in the Words of Those Who Lived it (Pitts Series in Social and Labor History)
( This extraordinary work of oral history captures the im...)
This extraordinary work of oral history captures the immense drama and full dimensions of the American immigrant experience. The men and women who tell their stories include such famous names as Alistair Cooke, W. Michael Blumenthal, Edward Teller, and Lynn Redgrave. But they share these pages with 136 other people whose stories are equally compelling: a Jewish former sweatshop worker and union organizer, a Scandanavian homesteader, a Polish coal miner, an anti-Nazi refugee, a Japanese war bride, a Mexican migrant worker, a Cuban exile, a South African interracial couple, a Soviet dissident, and many more. They reveal the mingled joy and pain, hardship and triumph that were and are part of the glowing dream and fearful gamble of a new life in a new land. They offer unique understanding not only of the makeup but of the meaning of America.
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Joan Morrison
Edit ProfileEducation
Bachelor, University of Chicago, 1944.
Career
Adjunct Professor, Morris County College, Dover, New Jersey, 1974-1988; Adjunct Professor, New School for Social Research, New York City, since 1988; writer, Morristown, New Jersey, since 1970.
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American Mosaic: The Immigrant Experience in the Words of Those Who Lived it (Pitts Series in Social and Labor History)
( This extraordinary work of oral history captures the im...)
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From Camelot to Kent State: The Sixties Experience in the Words of Those Who Lived it
(No decade in American history continues to fascinate us l...)
- FROM CAMELOT TO KENT STATE
- From Camelot to Kent State: The Sixties Experience in the Words of Those Who Lived It by Joan Morrison (1987-10-12)
- From Camelot to Kent State: The Sixties Experience in the Words of Those Who Lived it by Joan Morrison (2001-06-14)
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American Mosaic: The Immigrant Experience in the Words of Those Who Lived it (Pitts Series in Social and Labor History)
Membership
Member American Studies Association, Oral History Association, National Society Arts & Letters, Authors' Guild, American Association of University Women.
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Married Robert Thornton Morrison, June 19, 1943. Children: Robert Kirby, James Vaughan, Susan Signe.
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1944