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Oral history interview with Gwen Dooley, 2009
Oral history interview with Gwen Dooley, 2009
Call Number
OH1589-V
Date
2009
Description
Gwen Dooley looks back on decades of community and governmental service to Boulder, beginning in the 1970s and continuing to this day: as a neighborhood activist, city council member, member of both the Open Space and Parks and Recs boards, and PLAN-Boulder County member and chairperson. She discusses some of the important and colorful issues that Boulder has dealt with during that time, ranging from the serious - development and environmental issues - to the offbeat - how the city dealt with nude bathing at Coot Lake. She also talks about good government practices, political campaigning, and offers recollections of Boulder during the late 1950s and 1960s.
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Oral history interview with John Buttny, 2013
Oral history interview with John Buttny, 2013
Call Number
OH1853
Date
2013
Description
John Buttny, one of the founders of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) chapter at the University of Colorado-Boulder campus in the late 1960s, describes founding the local SDS chapter in 1967; actions that the chapter undertook over the next two years, including political organizing, sit-ins, and civil disobedience around issues such as military recruiting, draft resistance, and the availability of birth control; the riots that ensued when conservative S. I. Hayakawa spoke in an inflammatory way at Macky Auditorium; and the legal repercussions of that melee for some of the individuals involved. He also delves into the later days of the SDS, including the birth and operating structure of the Weatherman faction, the Days of Rage in Chicago in 1969, and the evolution of the Weather Underground.
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