The Martin B. Duberman Papers contain personal and professional correspondence, organizational and topical files, manuscripts, typescripts, and drafts of his writings, teaching files, recorded interviews, photographs, films and memorabilia documenting his personal and professional life from childhood through 1979. Some materials, chiefly book manuscripts and photographs, date from a later period.
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Duberman, Martin B.
Biography (note)
Martin Bauml Duberman (1930- ), American historian and playwright, has taught history at Yale University, Princeton University and Herbert Lehman College, City University of New York.
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Duberman, Martin B.
Title
Martin B. Duberman papers, 1917-2010.
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Biography
Martin Bauml Duberman (1930- ), American historian and playwright, has taught history at Yale University, Princeton University and Herbert Lehman College, City University of New York. He wrote biographies of Charles Francis Adams, James Russell Lowell and Paul Robeson as well as historical studies, plays, essays, and reviews. His plays include In White America (1963) about the struggle of African-Americans for freedom and civil rights. Since 1972 he has been active in the gay rights movement and the study of gay and lesbian history. He was a founder of the Gay Academic Union and the National Gay Task Force and has been the director of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the City University of New York.