ABSTRACT Long remembered for its warning that the United States, divided by racism, was becoming “two societies, one black, one white – separate and unequal,” the report of the Kerner commission (National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders) made a landmark contribution to public debate in 1968. The paperback edition quickly became a bestseller that year, and even though it failed to influence Lyndon

ABSTRACT This article recovers an important episode of Sixties spiritual politics. It tracks the efforts of the Washington Nineteen, a group of Roman Catholic parish priests suspended by their superior for defending the laity’s sexual freedom, to secure rights of due process in the American Catholic Church. Secular dissidents – students, soldiers, and civil rights activists – also demanded rights of

(2021). Pauli Murray: a personal and political life. The Sixties: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 104-106.

(2021). Our sixties: an activist’s history. The Sixties: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 114-115.

(2021). Reclaiming the reservation: histories of Indian sovereignty suppressed and renewed. The Sixties: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 116-118.

(2021). The Hardhat Riot: Nixon, New York City, and the dawn of the white working-class revolution. The Sixties: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 115-118.

(2021). Sixties Europe. The Sixties: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 97-101.

ABSTRACT After the revolutions of the Sixties, members of the Baby Boom generation (those born between 1946 and 1963) jumbled the categories of friends, lovers, and family, seeking the intimacy and support their parents found from partners in friends. How and why they built friendships and how those friendships differed from previous social understandings of friendships is the subject of this essay

(2021). Roadside Americans: the rise and fall of hitchhiking in a changing nation. The Sixties: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 108-110.

ABSTRACT In 1957, the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR), a pacifist Christian group, published a comic book entitled Martin Luther King and The Montgomery Story. This document has received some attention in recent years in light of Congressman John Lewis’ recent comic series March, which was inspired by this 1957 work. While there has been some discussion of its creation, there has been less discussion

(2021). God with us: lived theology and the freedom struggle in Americus, Georgia, 1942–1976. The Sixties: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 106-108.

(2021). The Young Lords: a radical history. The Sixties: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 101-103.

(2021). On the freedom side: how five decades of youth activists have remixed American history. The Sixties: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 118-120.

(2020). Break on through: radical psychiatry and the American counterculture. The Sixties: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 164-167.

(2020). The closet and the cul-de-sac: the politics of sexual privacy in Northern California. The Sixties: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 169-172.

(2020). A specter haunting the cinema. The Sixties: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 146-155.

(2020). Her neighbor’s wife: a history of lesbian desire within marriage. The Sixties: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 167-169.

(2020). Student revolt in 1968: France, Italy and West Germany. The Sixties: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 160-172.

(2020). People’s diplomacy of Vietnam: soft power in the resistance war, 1965-1972. The Sixties: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 162-164.

(2020). A class act: Mary Quant and Terence Conran in the long sixties. The Sixties: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 156-159.

ABSTRACT This study examines the anti-war movement’s conflicted attitude toward the Arab-Israeli conflict in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It details how these uncertainties highlighted and exacerbated several fault lines, including between those advocating the single-issue approach versus those wishing to expand the movement’s focus beyond Vietnam, and between anti-imperialists who denounced Israel

ABSTRACT This article considers André Luiz Oliveira’s Meteorango Kid – O herói intergalático (1969), an important yet often overlooked contribution to Brazilian Cinema Marginal of late 1960s and early 1970s. These low-budget, black and white cinematic productions rejected the revolutionary nationalism of Cinema Novo and embraced instead an “aesthetics of garbage” that conveyed a position of marginality

ABSTRACT Scholars have taken great interest in black conservatism, but most focus on the ideology’s contours during the post-civil rights era. Few closely interrogate the relationship between black conservatives and white conservative groups, particularly during the height of the civil rights movement. This article takes a close look at the partnership between black conservative George S. Schuyler

ABSTRACT Usually recalled through historical events and the stories of leaders, The Sixties also encompassed activism by “rank-and-filers,” ordinary people who found the start of their adult lives upended by the senseless Vietnam War. That tragedy depended on the escalation of the racist and class-divisive “peacetime” military draft system. Former draft resister, Paul Kleyman, now a grandfather of

Covering the period from 1950 to 1967, David Johnson’s Buying Gay: How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a Movement explores the market growth and government response to the developing physique publis...

A friend of mine long battled a serious illness, rallying her community for support. One day she informed us, “I’m now healed. That you for your kindness, but you can stop helping me get well.” Her...

The Jazz and People’s Movement, led by multi-instrumentalist and Atlantic Records recording star Rahsaan Roland Kirk, began disrupting network television talk shows in 1970. The movement aimed to s...

Gabriel Thompson maps the long, slow development of Fred Ross’s grassroots organizing strategies throughout the state of California in America’s Social Arsonist. Though Ross’s life was anything but slow, his method for inspiring and structuring community activism came together over time and changed little once he fine-tuned his methods. The unlikely organizer from Los Angeles was thrust into relief

The worlds of psychedelic posters, the history of art, and the counterculture suffered a major blow early this year with the passing, within just days of one another, of two of the formative and su...

But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to something over there only because I am here.But nothing ...

Natasha Zaretsky’s new book, Radiation Nation: Three Mile Island and the Political Transformation of the 1970s, is not exclusively a history of the Three Mile Island (TMI) accident or the resulting...

Every year around the time of Martin Luther King’s birthday, we hear that the revered civil-rights leader came to understand late in his life that sweeping economic reform was essential for racial progress, but that this “radical” King has been obscured by the antiseptic apostle of brotherhood favored by the media. Since we hear this theme every year, we may ask just how deeply suppressed it can be

ABSTRACT This paper argues for the inclusion of the GI Movement in narratives of the New Left. Through an analysis of the GI underground press this article explores activists’ emphasis on participatory democracy, making America’s professed ideals a reality for all, and their critiques of authority and existing power structures of the Establishment. Despite diverging from popular images of the Sixties

ABSTRACT Key to the influential idea of a “global Sixties” has been a rich scholarship addressing the global orientation and sensibility of student and youth movements in disparate locations and the connections between them. Research exploring the diffusion across national borders of radical ideas and strategies, however, has tended to focus on large, urban centers at the expense of rural and regional

“Memphis presented a strange paradox,” the historian Gerald Capers wrote eighty years ago and quoted more than once in this enlightening anthology on the African American struggle for equality in t...

ABSTRACT Using oral history interviews and questionnaires gathered as part of the ‘Cultural Memory and British Cinema-going of the 1960s’ project, this article recovers and analyses the reminiscences of people who were interested or involved in the British counterculture. By drawing on a broader range of experiences than typically represented in canonical accounts of the counterculture and those that

Turkish psychedelia with a parallel narration about the global music scene. The similarities to, influences from, and, sometimes, mimicries of global hit songs are elaborately pointed out, which makes it stand out as a detailed comparison between Turkish and global psychedelia. Despite all the strong points of the book, some of the English translations of the Turkish song titles should be reviewed

ABSTRACT The rise of the Latino population in Chicago during the 1960s and 1970s appeared to coincide with the inevitable breakdown of an aging political machine hobbled under the weight of the urban crisis. Instead, that old machine—defined by a patronage system, corruption, and voter intimidation—continued functioning, even as the city’s wards became browner. Through an examination of the relationship

ABSTRACT In 2009, television networks worldwide broadcast the performance of the nonagenarian Pete Seeger, an aging icon of the Sixties, accompanied by his son Tao, Bruce Springsteen, and a choir of children, at the inauguration of President Barack Obama, a figure intimately associated by many with a fulfilment of at least some of the progressive potential of the Sixties. The event encapsulated an

ABSTRACT This article locates the roots of “punk rock” in the “hippie” counterculture of Detroit, circa 1967–1970. It opens with an intellectual biography of John Sinclair, emphasizing how he developed the principle of Do-It-Yourself (DIY) in his work with the Detroit Artists Workshop and then his management of the band, the MC5. The article then explores the role of the audience in the MC5’s shows

In 2016, President Donald Trump’s inaugural address painted a bleak landscape of “American Carnage” in the nation’s metropolises, populated by “mothers and children trapped in poverty,” defenseless...

with the general thrust of the Black Freedom movement when they made this shift toward electoral politics, yet this process also accelerated the party’s decline. The denouement of the BPP came as consequence of numerous factors. Volumes have explored the internal disputes, state repression, criminal activities, and mismanagement that brought the most celebrated radical leftist organization of the Long

march through the institutions,” to borrow a phrase. The book’s main flaw is in its lack of organization. There is no discernable order to the essays. This may highlight that there is “no one narrative” (xlviii), as Cronin writes in the introduction, but it risks key themes falling through the cracks. For example, several essays engage with the question of symbolic protest. They are naturally in conversation

ABSTRACT The Joint Show was the first significant exhibition of posters and counterculture art in a reputable art gallery. Held July-September 1967 at the Walter Moore Gallery in San Francisco, it showcased artwork by Wes Wilson, Rick Griffin, Stanley Mouse, Alton Kelley, and Victor Moscoso. Examining the conception, preparation, contents, opening, and press coverage, this article pieces together the

I would first like to thank the organizers of this symposium for posing as the frame for our dialogue, the question: “Why do we still care about 1968?” and not, as they might have, “Why does 1968 s...

that can equally serve classrooms, research, and the general reader interested in a fascinating chapter in this important era. Not all travelers succeeded entirely in their mission. Noting the disillusionment of one searcher on discovering mid-trail the elusive nature of the exotic yoga experience he was hoping to find – the trail often continued on to Kathmandu, Bangkok, even Bali – the authors comment

ABSTRACT The Australian artist Martin Sharp (1942–2013) produced a series of psychedelic artworks in London between 1966 and 1968, the most famous of which were the Disraeli Gears record cover for rock group Cream and the Bob Dylan Blowin’ in the Mind poster. Sharp’s work exemplifies the connection between early twentieth century Modernist art movements, Pop art and acid-induced psychedelia of the

Scholars in particular still care about 1968 because its legacies are extremely contested to this day. As with many punctual moments in history, the methodological approaches and social groups of s...

stories into national ones. And so in Tochterman’s telling of the backstory to our current moment, the origin of neoliberalism’s “weakening of public redevelopment mechanisms” nationwide can be found in the declensionist narratives that were so widely produced and consumed by New Yorkers during the 1960s and ‘70s (13). Tochterman’s focus on urban imaginaries can leave him ignoring, well, certain realities

Abstract In 1971, anti-abortion leaders in the United States came together to establish a new national organization, Americans United for Life (AUL). In its first year, AUL struggled to put ecumenism into practice and deliberated over how best to spread its message. After months of often-bitter debate, right-to-lifers in AUL chose compromise over absolutism and education over protest. They positioned

Historians have long documented how critiques of corporate capitalism by luminaries like C. Wright Mills, Herburt Marcuse, and E. Franklin Frazier influenced the anti-capitalist Left of the Sixties...

Most everything one needs to know about Ken Burns’s and Lynn Novick’s epic interpretation of the Vietnam War is evident in their summary of the conflict in the film’s eighteenth and final hour. “Th...

profoundly discredited by modern art. The question forms the background for a return to the much-discussed work of Gerhard Richter, whose very different brand of photorealism stages constant confrontations with modernist abstraction, as well as with the administrative orders of a divided postwar Germany. His claim that “what is good in art is always factual” translated into the decidedly non-painterly

Abstract “Serving with Pride and Dignity” (SWPD), the Women’s Army Corps’ traveling pageant, toured all 50 states from 1963 to 1969 with the intent to promote the Corps and improve its reputation with the American public. It combined the American history of women and war with the American history of fashion. The pageant offered a narrative that told the story of American women and the military, highlighting

Berger, Dan. Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity. Oakland: AK Press, 2006. Burrough, Bryan. Days of Rage: America’s Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence. New York: Penguin Press, 2015. Eckstein, Arthur M. Bad Moon Rising: How the Weather Underground Beat the FBI and Lost the Revolution. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press

The exhibition, The British Underground Press of the Sixties, held at London’s A22 Gallery brought together some of the most important underground publications of the Sixties, such as International...

Abstract The International War Crimes Tribunal organized by Bertrand Russell in 1966–1967 sought to investigate alleged violations of international law and the Nuremberg Principles by the United States in Vietnam. While the Tribunal successfully convened three sets of hearings in Stockholm, Sweden, Roskilde, Denmark, and, Tokyo, Japan, it was easily dismissed in most of Western Europe and the United

Abstract Despite her well-documented fame, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy is largely absent from the historiography of modern American womanhood. When addressed, she is often regarded as a figure of style rather than substance. This article reconsiders the potential influence of JBK through investigation of her 1962 White House Restoration and responses of American citizens, popular American media, and

Abstract Historians have frequently characterized postwar liberalism by the limitations placed upon it by a rigid anticommunist framework and an abandonment of the social democratic currents found in the New Deal that left it with little more to stand on than a commitment to the piecemeal reforms of the Fair Deal and the enshrinement of civil and voting rights into law. Such characterizations describe

Avila, Eric. The Folklore of the Freeway: Race and Revolt in the Modernist City. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014. Dávila, Arlene. Barrio Dreams: Puerto Ricans, Latinos, and the Neoliberal City. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. Innis-Jiménez, Michael. Steel Barrio: The Great Mexican Migration to South Chicago, 1915–1940. New York: New York University Press, 2013. Johnson