Oral history interview with Michele Clark

Oral history interview with Michele Clark

Michele Clark describes growing up in New York City and attending City College of New York in 1967, during which time she joined the Bread and Puppet Theater and participated in anti-war demonstrations and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) activism. She describes working briefly for the SDS in Chicago, at Ramparts magazine with Lee Webb, and for the Liberation News Service (LNS) with Ray Mungo, living in a communal household in Washington, D.C. She mentions representing LNS on an SDS trip to Cuba that inspired her widely published “Letters from Cuba,” and in 1969 being invited to speak at Goddard College by Jules Rabin, whom she had met while at Bread and Puppet. She describes returning to Plainfield, Vermont and meeting her future husband, Sam Clark, who was a founding member of the New Hamburger commune in Plainfield, Vermont. Michele recalls attending a women’s conference and her involvement in women’s consciousness-raising groups in Boston, and discusses elements of communal life, and 1960s-1970s social change in regards to gender roles and child rearing.

21 July 2015

AudioFile1970s-52

MP3

Audio File

Plainfield (Vt.)

Permission to publish material from the Vermont 1970s Counterculture Project must be obtained from the Vermont Historical Society.

Rowell, Leslie

Clark, Michele, 1945-

Plainfield (Vt.)

1 hr., 21 min., 48 sec.

Vermont Historical Society Library, 60 Washington Street, Barre, VT 05641-4209