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"Takin' It to the Streets" A Sixties Reader

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ISBN-10: 0195066243

ISBN-13: 9780195066241

Edition: 1995

Authors: Alexander Bloom, Wini Breines

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Takin' It to the Streets is a comprehensive collection of primary documents covering political, social and cultural aspects of the 1960's. Drawn from mainstream sources, little-known sixties periodicals, pamphlets and public speeches, this anthology brings together representative writings many of which have been unavailable for years or have never been reprinted, from the Port Huron Statement and Malcolm X's "The Ballot or the Bullet" to Richard Nixon's "If Mob Rule Takes Hold in the U.S." and Ronald Reagan's "Freedom versus Anarchy on Campus." Introductions and headnotes by the editors help highlight the importance of particular documents while relating them to each other and placing them…    
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Book details

List price: $36.95
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/7/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 656
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.70" tall
Weight: 1.650
Language: English

"Keep on Walkin'', Keep On Talkin''": Civil Rights, 1960 to 1965
Anne Moody: "The Jackson Sit-In"
SNCC: Founding Statement
The Freedom Rides
John Lewis: "Wake Up America!"
"Letters from Mississippi"
Fannie Lou Hammer and Rita Schwerner: Testimony before the Democratic
National Convention
Women in the Movement
"SNCC Position Paper: Women in the Movement"
Casey Hayden and Mary King: "Sex and Caste: A Kind of Memo"
Selma
"My Generation": The Student Movement and The Early New Left
Beginnings
Port Huron Statement
"Letter to the New Left"
"Raising the Question of Who Decides"
"How To Help the Ones at the Bottom"
Community Organizing
"The Politics of the Movement"
"Cleveland: Conference of the Poor"
The Free Speech Movement
"The Wedding Within the War"
"An End to History"
Free Speech Movement Leaflets
"To the Students of Political Science 113"
"Do Not Fold, Bend, Mutilate Or Spindle"
"Catch 801"
"Freedom is a Big Deal"
"Memories of FSM"
New Left Thinking at Mid-Decade
"In White America: Radical Consciousness and Social Change"
"Student Power: A Radical View"
"Say It Loud, Say It Proud": Black Nationalism and Ethnicconsciousness
Black Nationalism and Black Pride
"The Ballot or the Bullet"
The Watts Riots
"Violence in the City--An End or a Beginning?"
The McCone Commission Report on Watts
Paul Bullock
Watts: The Aftermath
SNCC: "The Basis for Black Power"
"Black Art and Black Liberation
"The Black Panthers
The Black Panther Platform
Police and the Panthers
The Death of Martin Luther King: Eldridge Cleaver, "Requiem for Nonviolence"
"The Revolt of the Black Athlete"
Latinos
"Chicano Manifesto"
"El Plan de Aztlan"
First National Chicana Conference
Cesar Chavez and the Farm Workers'' Movement
Asian-Americans
"The Emergence of Yellow Power in America"
"I Forgot My Eyes Were Black"
Native Americans
Preamble to the Constitution of the National Indian Youth Council
"Watts and Little Big Horn"
"Hey, Hey, LBJ!": Vietnam and The Anti-War Movement
Understanding the War
"This Isn''t Munich, It''s Spain"
"The University on the Make"
The Antiwar Movement
"The Incredible War"
"Trapped in a System"
SDS Calls for a March on Washington
SNCC Position Paper on Vietnam
"Declaration of Independence from the War in Vietnam"
"Berrigan at Cornell"
Resistance and Anti-Draft Activity
"Channeling"
The Resistance: "We Refuse To Serve"
"Vietnam and the Draft"
"A Time To Say No"
Anti-Draft Activity
"Draft Board Raids Up"
"An Open Letter to the Corporations of America"
"Beaver 55 Strikes Again"
In the War
"Army Times"
"The Fort Hood Three"
Antiwar Activity Within the Military
Experiences of War
My Lai
Lynda Van Devanter: "Home Before Morning"
"Eight Miles High": The Counterculture
A Literature of the Counterculture
Trout Fishing in America
"The Glass Mountain"
Pierre Biner: "The Living Theatre"
Rock Around the Clock
"San Francisco Bray"
"Love, Janis"
"Nothing Would Ever Be the Same"
"Rock and Roll is a Weapon of Cultural Revolution"
Tom Robbins: "To Dance"
Film: Dotson Rader, "Notes on Andy Warhol"
Hippies
"What is a Hippie?"
"The Human Be-In"
"The Digger Papers"
Yippies
"Yippie Manifesto"
Do It
Communes
The Alternative
"Love It or Leave It": The Backlash Against The Movements
Opposing the Students
"If Mob Rule Takes Hold in the U.S."
"Communist Infiltration"
"Freedom vs. Anarchy on Campus"
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