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Catholic upbringing; early interest in art; military service; experiences in Europe, 1960; involvement with civil rights movement and Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in Baltimore; concern over Vietnam conflict and personal involvement; relationship with Philip Berrigan; protests involving destruction of draft records; trial and imprisonment; interactions of art, religion, and morality

Family background, education; early legal work for trade unions, New York, N.Y.; American Labor Party, 1936; Boudin, Cohn and Glickstein, 1938-42; association with Communist-influenced unions, national and state labor boards; foundation of own firm, 1942; effects of Taft-Hartley Act, internal security investigations, American Communications Association vs Douds, Steve Nelson case; discussion of Judith Coplon and Rosenberg cases; Teachers Union, New York, N.Y., and Board of Education; Jimmy Hoffa; representing Castro government from 1960

Family background, childhood in Alexandria, VA and Jersey City, NJ; father's involvement with radical and black national politics; work with the Communist Party in New Jersey; problems during the McCarthy era; attendance at School of Marxist Studies, New York; work as a practical nurse; participation and leadership in District 1199 National Hospital and Health Care Employee's Union: 1969 Charleston, SC hospital strike, hospital organizing in New York, NY; controversies in the Hospital Workers Union in the late 1970s and early 1980s; impressions of Doris Turner and Leon Davis

Childhood & World War I period, Pennsylvania; education, Wilberforce University, Teachers College, City College of New York; discrimination within trade union movement; black nationalism; Fellowship of Reconciliation, World War II; experiences in prison, 1943-45; penal reform; Congress of Racial Equality protests, Freedom Ride; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; rivalry between Martin Luther King Jr. and Roy Watkins; A. Philip Randolph and the labor movement; Montogomery bus protest; work with Martin Luther King in organization of Southern Christian Leadership Conference; recollections of Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee; black protests at National Democratic Convention, 1960; A.P. Randolph and the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO); March on Washington, 1963; Martin Luther King's assasination; genesis of A.P. Randolph Institute; improving employment situation of blacks; Voting Rights Act; social decline in America; South African anti-apartheid movement; communism and factionism in South African government and tribal groups; views on divestment, disinvestment, Reagan administration policies on South Africa; 1987 elections in South Africa. Impressions of: A. Philip Randolph, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Adam Clayton Powell Jr

Family history and Southern tradition; legal practice; Reconstruction Finance Corporation; Government Reorganization Act; Defense Plant corporation; development programs; Federal Communications Commission; Communication Act of 1934; House Committee on Un-American Activities; FBI loyalty programs; broadcast license renewal considerations; academic freedom issue; Montgomery civil rights practice; impressions of Jesse Jones, Hugo Black, Aubrey Williams, others in New Deal Washington

Origins of political consciousness in suburbs of Boston; early reaction to civil rights struggle and conflict in Vietnam; reactions to social milieu of New York in general and Columbia University in particular; involvement with Congress of Racial Equality, Students for a Democratic Society and other student groups while at Columbia; extended discussion of experiences leading to transition from pacifist to agent of violent revolution; evolution, interaction, and critique of various student activist organizations; 1968 strike at Columbia; experience as member of Weather Underground revolutionary group; lengthy analysis of revolutionary theory

Impressions of United States Presidents, 1912-65; activities in support of socialist and labor organizations; newspaper career; early political campaigns; work for civil liberties: freedom of speech in Jersey City, sharecropper protection, defense of Japanese-Americans during World War II

Immigrant background, Ethical Culture School, Harvard; early interest in civil liberties; Roger N. Baldwin; settlement house work, 1926-1933; work with West Virginia mining families, 1933; teacher and leader at Ethical Culture from 1933; co-chairman, city-wide Committee on Harlem, 1941-1947; job opportunities for blacks; state committee on fair housing, 1949; chairman of board of National Committee on Discrimination in Housing, 1950-1967; black militancy in late 1960s; chairman of Civilian Complaint Review Board of Police Department, New York City, 1966; encampments for citizenship from 1939; writing and broadcasting on ethical issues; internal security investigations