The Movement Toward a New America: The Beginnings of a Long Revolution

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The Movement Toward a New America: The Beginnings of a Long Revolution

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1 Comprehension, 2 Compendium, 3 Handbook, 4 Guide, 5 History, 6 Revolution Kit, 7 Work in Progress. This is a compendium of photos, cartoons,...

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1 Comprehension, 2 Compendium, 3 Handbook, 4 Guide, 5 History, 6 Revolution Kit, 7 Work in Progress. This is a compendium of photos, cartoons, articles & letters about the 60s movements: university politics, racial independence, native Americans, gays, hippies, yippies, revolution, Cuba, black power, police, Vietnam, prisons, military, technology, class, feminism, sexual revolution, the media, social change, cities, music, marijuana etc. Not just in the USA--movements around the world. The anthology begins with the Civil Rights struggle spurred on by students & radical movements. Articles from a wide range of papers, literary trades, universities etc. The book begins with a chronology starting in '56 when Rosa Parks refuses to go to the back of the bus in Montgomery & Martin Luther King leads blacks in a 381 day boycott, thru to '70: Nixon, Agnew & Mitchell declare war on bums, radicals & other criminal elements. Reagan calls for a "bloodbath" to settle the student "problem." Kent State, Jackson State & Cambodia. Nationwide student strikes. Murder of black students & other young blacks by state troopers in Georgia & Mississippi. Draft Resistance regenerates Union for Nat'l Draft Opposition organized at Princeton.
White wraps drawing of Mitchell Goodman, price printed to upper right corner. Rear wrap back of sandwich sign to front with titles of various papers of the time: Leviathan, The Bird, Ramparts, Berkeley Tribe etc. Inside photo, 1956: "One Thing Leads to Another," Rosa Parks, "Rosa Parks refuses to go to the back of the bus in Montgomery." An excellent historical chronology of the times.

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  • Pages:768 pages
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  • Publisher:Pilgrim Press (Philadelphia)/Alfred A. Knopf (NY)
  • Edition:1st
  • Language:eng
  • ISBN10:0394709446
  • ISBN13:9780394709444
  • kindle Asin:0394709446

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