Alicia D'Addario Papers, 1962-2002
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Alicia D'Addario was born June 5, 1980, in Charlottesville, Virginia, to Candace A. and Larry R. D'Addario. She grew up in Charlottesville, where she attended Albemarle High School. She entered Oberlin College in 1998 and graduated with high honors in history in 2002. She is a 2005 graduate of New York University School of Law. She clerked for Judge Rosemary Pooler on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. D'Addario is a Senior Attorney at the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama.
Sources Consulted
Biographical information supplied by Alicia D'Addario in 2002.
Equal Justice Initiative website, staff page, http://eji.org/about/staff accessed 16 September 2013.
Author: Melissa Gottwald Forms of Material (links to similar genres) Administrative InformationEric B. Nye Papers, RG 30/342.
Additional copies of In Search of Community: The Oberlin Student Movement, 1961-68 by Alicia D'Addario are held by the Oberlin College Library.
For more information please see http://obis.oberlin.edu/record=b2209451~S4.
The papers of Alicia D'Addario consist of her history honors paper, "In Search of Community: The Oberlin Student Movement, 1961-68," and related historical files and oral history interviews. The papers are arranged in three series: I. Honors Thesis, II. Historical Files, and III. Oral History Interviews.
D'Addario did extensive research in the Oberlin College Archives for her honors paper, which looks at the New Left from the perspective of a small liberal arts college. In her paper she focuses on the conception of community at Oberlin during Robert Kenneth Carr's presidency, and on the campus debates about college social rules, civil rights, and the Vietnam war. She also briefly discusses the transition of the radical student movement into identity politics at Oberlin.
In the course of her research, D'Addario was given a modest amount of historical material relating to Oberlin student activism and demonstrations. They include a pamphlet and photocopied conference material on the National Campus Political Conference which was held at Oberlin College on April 13-15, 1962, and a pamphlet and photocopied newspaper clippings on the "Student Action for a Turn Toward Peace," demonstration in Washington, D.C. on February 16-17, 1962. Also found here is an audiotape of broadcasts by the Oberlin College student radio station WOBC. These broadcasts document student demonstrations about student housing issues ("March, Arch & Vigil," May 8, 1967) and demonstrations in response to a visit by United States Marine Corps recruiters ("Carr Confronted at Cox," February 20, 1969).
The final, and largest, series contains audiotapes of oral history interviews with former faculty and alumni who were members of the Oberlin community in the 1960s. In addition to the audiotapes, there are release forms for the use of each of the interviews, partial transcripts of the majority of the interviews, and correspondence. The correspondents include participants in the oral history interviews and other Oberlin alumni who provided additional information.
INVENTORY
Series I. Honors Thesis, 2002
Box 1
"In Search of Community: The Oberlin Student
Movement, 1962-68," 27 April 2002
Series II. Historical Files, 1962-69
Box 1 (cont.)
National Campus Political Conference, Oberlin
College, April 13-15, 1962
Student Action for a Turn Toward Peace, Washington,
D.C., February 16-17, 1962
WOBC coverage of student demonstrations
(audiocassette)
"March, Arch & Vigil," reported by Thomas F.
Witheridge (A.B. 1969), May 8, 1967
"Confronting Carr at Cox," February 20, 1969
Series III. Oral History Interviews, 2001-02
Box 1 (cont.)
Correspondence and Corrected Transcripts, 2001-02
Partial Transcripts, c. 2001-02
Release Forms, 2001-02
Box 2
Oral History Interviews (28 audiocassettes)
Nancy Aron, 12/13/01
Marcia Aranoff, 12/6/01
Peter Blood, 11/29/01
Susan Chandler (Kerr), 12/5/01
Isabel Tapper Chang, 12/10/01 (CD-ROM copy
created 11/19/2008)
Timothy V. Craine, 11/7/01 (2 tapes)
David Hadley Finke, 12/4/01 (2 tapes)
Paula J. Gordon, 12/15/01
Joseph Gross, 11/20/01
A.M. (Pete) Guest, 11/4/01
Dennis Hale, 11/13/01
Charles (Chip) Hauss, 11/13/01
Jack Hill, 11/5/01
George Langeler, 11/29/01
Fred Magdoff, 11/27/01
Bernard Mayer, 11/7/01
Albert McQueen, 12/5/01
Wilson C. (Carey) and Nancy Riley McWilliams,
11/28/01
G. Thomas Mitchell, 11/12/01
Paul Osterman, 11/20/01
Phyllis Palmer, 11/20/01
Anita Reichard, 12/11/01
Matt Rinaldi, 12/4/01
Jonathan Seldin, 11/25/01
Ann Stromquist, 11/11/01
J. Milton Yinger, 11/26/01