Interview: Browne, Joseph, 1991
Item
- Resource class
- Interview
- Title
- Interview: Browne, Joseph, 1991
- Type
- Interview
- Interviewee
- Browne, Joseph
- Birth Year
- 1940s approximately
- Birth Place
- Newark, New Jersey
- Rutgers Graduating Class
- 1980
- Interviewer
- Cohen, Gilbert
- Location Created
- Newark, New Jersey
- Date Created
- 18 October 1991
- Abstract
- Joseph Browne founded the Black Organization of Students (BOS) together with Richard Roper. Browne grew up in Newark and attended white Catholic schools prior to coming to the university. He had left Rutgers for a time to join VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) and participated in the Newark City Council election of 1968.
- Source Project Description
- This interview is part of an oral history project that Rutgers University librarian Gil Cohen conducted in the early 1990s. The project documented the city of Newark and Rutgers University-Newark as they were in the 1960s and 1970s. The audio recordings and transcripts for this collection have been fully digitized by Rutgers University Libraries.
- Transcript
- https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3WW7FKS
- Repository
- Rutgers University Archives, a division of Special Collections and University Archives, located at Alexander Library, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
- Rights
- Rutgers University owns the copyright in this work. You may make use of this resource, with proper attribution, for noncommercial educational, scholarly, or research purposes only. Please contact Rutgers University Libraries to obtain permission for other uses.
- Related Resource
- http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/ead/uarchives/bosf.html
- Subject
- Rutgers University-Newark
- Rutgers University-New Brunswick
- Rutgers Alumni
- Black Organization of Students (BOS)
- Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA)
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
- Newark Area Planning Association (NAPA)
- Leaguers
- Paul Robeson
- Student Afro-American Society (SAS)
- NAACP
- Conklin Hall takeover
- Black Power
- Activism and Movements
- Identifier
- SCUA-RNOH-Browne
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