Interview with Bill Bower : The Movement Oral History Project

<a href="https://embed.stanford.edu/iframe/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpurl.stanford.edu%2Fss427jw2996" class="su-underline">Show Content</a>

Abstract/Contents

Abstract: Bill Bower (1973 BS Human Biology) shares memories of his time at Stanford during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Bower begins by describing his upbringing in Venezuela, where his parents worked for oil companies. He recalls his arrival at Stanford in 1968 amidst growing activism on campus and describes the impact that hearing David Harris speak during freshman orientation had on him. He describes his involvement as a participant in several actions, including canvassing in the surrounding community and being beaten by the police at a campus protest. Bower also comments on the gender dynamics in the activist community and recalls when women began sitting in the balcony at the movies in Memorial Auditorium, a space previously dominated by men. He recalls how a SWOPSI course on healthcare alternatives led him to become a community health worker in Mexico with the Hesperian Foundation and speaks about his subsequent career in public health. He concludes with a memorable story about civil unrest and police violence in Newark, New Jersey, after the death of Martin Luther King Jr.

Type of resource	moving image, sound recording-nonmusical, text
Extent	1 video file; 1 audio file; 1 text file; 1 photograph
Place	Stanford (Calif.)
Publisher	Stanford Historical Society
Date created	May 4, 2019
Language	English
Digital origin	born digital

Interviewee	Bower, Bill
Creator	Bower, Bill
Interviewer	Hanley, James
Publisher	Stanford Historical Society

Subject	Bower, Bill
Subject	College Students > Political Activity > United States
Subject	Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Protest Movements
Subject	Anti-war demonstrations
Genre	Interview

Biography	Bill Bower is a Senior Lecturer at the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health at Columbia University. He has worked with international health programs for over nineteen years in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, focusing on the training of lay health workers, clinicians, and program managers. He has contributed to classic books on the training of lay-workers Where There Is No Doctor and Helping Health Workers Learn. In the US, he directed tuberculosis education and training efforts for sixteen years for the New York City Department of Health Bureau of Tuberculosis Control and the Charles P. Felton National Tuberculosis Center at Harlem Hospital. These tuberculosis training efforts joined with the New Jersey Medical School Global Tuberculosis Institute and the State of Massachusetts Department of Health to form the Northeastern Regional Training and Medical Consultation Consortium, serving twenty state and city tuberculosis control programs.
Transcript	Title Transcript
Finding Aid	Title The Movement Oral History Project (SC1432)
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/ss427jw2996
Location	SC1432
Repository	Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

Use and reproduction: The materials are open for research use and may be used freely for non-commercial purposes with an attribution. For commercial permission requests, please contact the Stanford University Archives (universityarchives@stanford.edu).

The Movement oral history project, 2018

Loading usage metrics...