Interview with Andrew Moss : The Movement Oral History Project
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Andrew Moss, a PhD student in the Department of Statistics from 1966 until he dropped out in 1969, shares memories of his participation in student activism while at Stanford. He begins by talking about his upbringing in England among members of the “Old Communist Left,” and how his childhood led him to trade union organizing at Stanford. At Stanford, he started an American Federation of Teachers union, Local 1816, for teaching and research assistants. Moss goes on to discuss his involvement with anti-Vietnam efforts on campus in the late 1960s, specifically joining Students for a Democratic Society [SDS]; walking out on a visit from then-US Vice President Hubert Humphrey in 1967; attending the Old Union Sit-In from May 6 to 8, 1968; and participating in the May 16, 1969, protest at the Stanford Research Institute with his wife and child. Throughout his time at Stanford, Moss wrote for some of the prolific underground and left-wing newspapers, including the Peninsula Observer, San Francisco Wildcat, and Dock of the Bay. He recalls key news coverage of the women’s liberation movement, housing affordability, and more. Remembering his latter years of activism, Moss describes the isolation he felt as organizations he was part of became more ideological and adopted Marxism-Leninism- Maoism thought. He concludes by discussing life after Stanford and continuing to organize within the GI Movement through Vietnam Veterans Against the War, as well as pursuing a career as a writer.
Description
| Type of resource | sound recording-nonmusical, text |
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| Extent | 1 audio file; 1 text file; 1 photograph |
| Place | Stanford (Calif.) |
| Publisher | Stanford Historical Society |
| Date created | December 7, 2018 |
| Language | English |
| Digital origin | born digital |
Creators/Contributors
| Interviewee | Moss, Andrew R., 1943- | |
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| Creator | Moss, Andrew R., 1943- | |
| Interviewer | Ochavillo, Vanessa | |
| Publisher | Stanford Historical Society |
Subjects
| Subject | Moss, Andrew R., 1943- |
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| Subject | Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.) |
| Subject | College Students > Political Activity > United States |
| Subject | Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Protest Movements |
| Subject | Anti-war demonstrations |
| Genre | Interview |
Bibliographic information
| Biography | Andrew Moss dropped out of the Stanford PhD program in Statistics in 1969 and moved up to San Francisco to pursue a career as a writer. He worked for Dock of the Bay and The Movement; and later as commissioning editor at Ramparts Press in Berkeley, a spinoff of Ramparts magazine. Later, he worked as a freelance writer. Eventually having gone broke, he went back to graduate school at University of California, Berkeley, and got a PhD in epidemiology. He was on the Epidemiology faculty of the University of California, San Francisco, from 1980 to 2006. He was the primary AIDS epidemiologist at UCSF during the AIDS epidemic and worked in the Ward 86 AIDS clinic at San Francisco General Hospital. He did many studies on the homeless and injecting drug-user populations of San Francisco. He is now an emeritus professor of epidemiology and writing a memoir about his experience working in Ward 86 in the early days of the AIDS epidemic. |
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| Transcript |
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| Finding Aid | |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/nv708rv5666 |
| Location | SC1432 |
| Repository | Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives |
Access conditions
- Use and reproduction
- The materials are open for research use and may be used freely for non-commercial purposes with an attribution. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA 94042, USA. For commercial permission requests, please contact the copyright holders or Stanford University Archives (universityarchives@stanford.edu).
- Copyright
- Copyright © Andrew Moss and Vanessa Ochavillo, 2019.
Collection
The Movement oral history project, 2018
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