A New Civil Rights Movement, a New Journal Written by Geoffrey Jacques Freedomways, the African American journal of politics and culture that for nearly a quarter century chronicled the civil rights and black freedom movements beginning in the early 1960s, started in 1961, a year that was a kind of […]
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Women In The Underground Press Part 1...
Authored by Dr. Jeremy Guida – By most accounts, the first-generation of underground papers were overwhelmingly misogynistic. These papers began publication between 1964 and 1967, just before the second-wave of feminism had fully taken hold. Even though most papers were socially progressive with regard to the war in Vietnam and racism, the […]
Remembering the Human Be-In
Authored by Dr. Jeremy Guida – On January 14, 1967, more than 20,000 hippies and participants in the counterculture gathered in San Francisco’s Golden Gate park to do little more than simply “be” together (Lee and Shalin 62). The event cemented San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury as a center of countercultural activity, setting the […]