1960s

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• SOURCE: Current Affairs
  10/22/2020
  

  The Real Abbie Hoffman

  by Nathan J. Robinson

  While The Trial of the Chicago 7 is sympathetic to Hoffman, it also softens him in a way that ultimately amounts to historical fabrication.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/17/2020
  

  Joe Biden's Non-Radical 1960s

  As a young adult in troubled times, Joe Biden steered a moderate course toward public life. For supporters and critics alike, it seems Joe has always been Joe. 

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• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  10/13/2020
  

  A Scholar of American Doom Doesn’t See How Capitalism Can Fix This Crisis

  "There are probably a billion and a half people, maybe more, maybe 2 billion, in the informal working class who have simply been triaged already in advance. So the fate of a very large minority of humanity has been determined now."

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  10/7//2020
  

  Getting to Freedom City (Review)

  by Robin D.G. Kelley

  Historian Robin Kelley reviews Mike Davis and Jon Weiner's "Set the Night on Fire," which chronicles the growth of resistance to inequality and miltarized policing in 1960s Los Angeles.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  9/18/2020
  

  How Jimi Hendrix’s London Years Changed Music

  A new book, at the 50th anniversary of the guitar master's death, takes Jimi Hendrix's leap from chitlin circuit sideman to London sensation as a turning point for rock music. 

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• SOURCE: Salon
  9/7/2020
  

  Counterculture Memoirist Sharon Dukett on what We Learned (and Forgot) from the Hippies

  A new memoir by Sharon Dukett recounts the down side of the 1960s counterculture: poverty, police harassment, and rampant sexism. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  8/11/2020
  

  Understanding Today’s Uprisings Requires Understanding What Came Before Them

  by Jeanne Theoharis

  The history of social unrest like the 1965 Watts Rebellion must acknowledge that public authorities had ignored peaceful demands for inclusion and opportunity from communities of color for years before the unrest.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  8/3/2020
  

  She Played a Key Role in the Police Response to the Watts Riots. The Memory Still Haunts Her—But Black History Is Full of Haunting Memories

  by Morgan Jerkins

  Regina was a Black woman working as an LAPD dispatcher in the 77th Street Division of South Los Angeles. She sent officers to respond to another's call for aid on August 11, 1965, warning them not to escalate any situation. Today she still asks “why didn’t they listen to me?”

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• SOURCE: Times of Israel
  7/31/2020
  

  The Teen Promoter, the Janitor, and a Stunning Rediscovered Thelonious Monk Gig

  “As soon as T.S. Monk listened to the recording, he knew right away that his father was feeling really good that day and wasn’t just going through the motions,” Danny Scher said.

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• 7/26/2020
  

  One of the Chicago 7 Reflects on Dissident Politics Then and Now

  by Lee Weiner

  A veteran of dissident politics in the 1960s warns that while today's broad coalition of activists for a more just and democratic America are on the right track, they must learn from the mistakes of an older generation and find ways to keep united despite difference. 

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• 7/19/2020
  

  The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Black Action Movement and the Way Forward

  by Martin Halpern

  Activists in today’s struggles against institutionalized racism and for black lives can benefit from studying a local victory of fifty years ago. In the spring of 1970, the Black Action Movement (BAM) at the University of Michigan led a thirteen-day strike that won a commitment to change by the university administration.

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• SOURCE: CommonWealth
  6/7/2020
  

  Protesting the George Floyd Killing: A Moment or a Movement?

  Certain moments “hit a collective nerve,” said historian Heather Ann Thompson.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  6/2/2020
  

  George Floyd’s Death Is a Failure of Generations of Leadership

  by Elizabeth Hinton

  To begin to dismantle the socioeconomic conditions that led to Mr. Floyd’s premature death, we can look to the principles of community representation and grass-roots empowerment that steered the early development of Johnson’s domestic program.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/1/2020
  

  What Would Martin Luther King Jr. Say About The Current Civil Unrest?

  by Peniel Joseph

  Many commentators who now invoke Martin Luther King Jr. to condemn angry protesters fail to grasp that King insisted peace and order could not be achieved without addressing deep racial and economic inequality in American society.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/1/2020
  

  The Police Chief Who Inspired Trump’s Tweet Glorifying Violence

  by Julio Capó, Jr.

  Trump echoed a former Miami police chief’s anti-black words and animus.  

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• SOURCE: LAist
  5/4/2020
  

  The Legacy of Bobby Lee Verdugo, A Leader Of East LA Walkouts

  Verdugo, who became one of the founders of the Chicano student movement and spent much of his life mentoring youth, died Friday. He was 69.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  4/26/2020
  

  Set the Night on Fire by Mike Davis and Jon Wiener (Review)

  Jon Weiner and Mike Davis's history of 60s Los Angeles traces the city’s turbulent era of rebellion, police brutality and rise of the counterculture.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  4/19/2020
  

  Dylan's 'Times They Are A-Changin'' Lyrics for Sale for $2.2 Million

  "The Times They Are A-Changin'", written by Dylan in 1963 and released on his 1964 album of the same name, is regarded as one of the most iconic protest songs of the 1960s.

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Review of Books
  4/14/2020
  

  A Review of Mike Davis and Jon Wiener's New Book "Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties"

  L.A. has a rich history, and it deserves to be told.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/4/2020
  

  Covid-19′s Disruptions Echo the Disturbances That Followed MLK’s Assassination

  by Kyla Sommers

  Former HNN editor-in-chief Kyla Sommers reminds us that Washingtonians have united in the face of a crisis before, and they can do so again.