Interview: Curvin, Robert, 1991
Item
- Resource class
- Interview
- Title
- Interview: Curvin, Robert, 1991
- Type
- Interview
- Interviewee
- Curvin, Robert
- Birth Year
- 1934
- Birth Place
- Belleville, New Jersey
- Rutgers Graduating Class
- 1960
- Interviewer
- Cohen, Gilbert
- Location Created
- Newark, New Jersey
- Date Created
- 30 November 1991
- Abstract
- Robert Curvin, a retired U.S Army 1st Lieutenant, completed his undergraduate degree at Rutgers-Newark in 1960. He later went on to obtain a master's degree at Rutgers University School of Social Work and a Ph.D. in political science at Princeton University in 1975. At Rutgers-Newark, Curvin served as an Adjunct Professor in the political science department and served as a faculty advisor to the Black Organization of Students (BOS).
- 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/T3G15XS5
- 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
- https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/01/nyregion/robert-curvin-scholar-who-fought-bias-and-poverty-in-newark-dies-at-81.html
- https://www.newark.rutgers.edu/news/mourning-alumnus-scholar-activist-educator-and-advocate-poor
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Curvin
- https://rutgersblackalumni.org/hof/dr-robert-curvin/
- Subject
- Rutgers University-Newark
- Rutgers Alumni
- Rutgers Faculty
- Black Organization of Students (BOS)
- School of Social Work (Rutgers)
- Professors
- Military
- NAACP
- Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
- Conklin Hall takeover
- Activism and Movements
- Identifier
- SCUA-RNOH-Curvin
Robert Curvin audio part 1
Robert Curvin audio part 2
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