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Introduction : seeds of the 1960s protest movement -- 1. Raised voices : the Berkley free speech ... movement -- Freedom of speech / The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution ratified December 15, 1791 -- "A spectre is haunting the university" / leaflet from the FSM Steering Committee, December 1964 -- "The bodies upon the gears" / Mario Savio's speech on the Sproul Hall steps, UC-Berkeley, December 2, 1964 -- The function of the University in time of crisis / Noam Chomsky's speech on the role of the University, 1969 -- 2. Flowers in their hair : voices of the hippie movement -- "The class structure of Hippie society" / Dr. Sherry Cavan's article on the economics of Hippie society, October 1972 -- "The gathering of the tribes" / promotional article in the San Francisco Oracle, January 1967 -- "Trip without a ticket" / The Digger Papers, August 1968 -- "The community of the tribe" / Tom Law's article on Hippie culture, 1967 -- "Marxism and nonviolence" conversation with Isaac Deutscher -- 3. Hell no, we won't go : protesting the Vietnam War -- The Port Huron Statement / Students for a Democratic Society's manifesto, June 1962 -- "The incredible war" / Paul Potter's essay on the Vietnam War, April 7, 1965 -- "The great silent majority" / President Nixon's Address to the American People, November 3, 1969 -- 4. We shall overcome : protesting racial discrimination -- "A moral crisis / John F. Kennedy's Address on Civil Rights, June 11, 1963 -- "We shall overcome" / Lyndon B. Johnson's Voting Rights Speech, March 15, 1965 -- "Black Power" / Stokely Carmichael's speech to the SNCC, October 29, 1966 -- 5. I am a woman : protesting gender discrimination -- Equal rights for women / Shirley Chisholm's speech in the House of Representatives, May 21, 1969 -- Judge Carswell and the "sex plus" doctrine / Betty Friedan's testimony before the Senate Judicial Committee, January 29, 1970 -- "We won't be silent anymore" / Gloria Steinem's testimony on the Equal Rights Amendment, May 6, 1970 -- "Living the revolution" / Gloria Steinem's Commencement Speech at Vassar College, May 31, 1970 -- 6. Embracing differences : protesting GLBT discrimination -- "Under conditions other than honorable" / Fannie Mae Clackum v. United States, January 20, 1960 -- "Raid on the Black Cat Bar" / press release from the Tavern Guild of Southern California, January 5, 1967 -- "Unfitness to teach"? / Morrison v. State Board of Education, November 20, 1969 -- "Full moon over the Stonewall" / Howard Smith's article in the Village Voice, July 2, 1969 -- 7. A voice from the past, demanding to be heard : the Native American -- "On the art of stealing human rights" / Gerry Gambill's speech at a conference on human rights, August 1968 -- "The meaning of AIM" / Birgil Kills Straight's letter to the editor, 1973 -- The NARP Eight-Point Program / article from the Native Alliance for Red Power Newsletter, June-July 1969 -- Establishing the National Council on Indian Opportunity / Lyndon B. Johnson's Executive Order 11399, March 6, 1968 -- "Eighteen thousand pages" / a guide to the microfilm edition of the FBI files on the American Indian Movement, 1986 -- 8. The fight in the fields : Latino protests of the era -- "Viva la causa" / statement of Senator Robert F. Kennedy at a rally of the United Farm Workers, March 10, 1968 -- "Men are not angels" / Cesar Chavez's letter from Delano, April 4, 1969 -- "The boycott is our major weapon" / Dolores Huerta's statement to Congress, July 15, 1969 -- Timeline of key events in the Protest Era of the 1960s. Read More |
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