A Lecture Series on "Women and War in American History"

Suzanne McCormack, Assistant Professor of History, CCRI, "'A country with which my government is at war': Carol McEldowney in North Vietnam, 1967"

Twenty-four-year-old community organizer Carol McEldowney traveled to North Vietnam in the fall of 1967 to observe her government’s enemy and, hopefully, better understand America’s involvement in Vietnam. Following her trip until her untimely death in 1973, McEldowney would summon the people, places, sights and sounds of North Vietnam from her consciousness and use these memories as motivation for work in the anti-war movement, the feminist movement, and the gay and lesbian rights movement.