Category Archives: Eldridge Cleaver

The White Negro – Norman Mailer (1957)

Posted on March 4, 2024 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster is a 9,000-word essay by Norman Mailer that connects the ‘psychic havoc’ wrought by the Holocaust and atomic bomb to the aftermath of slavery in America in the figuration of the Hipster, … Continue reading →

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Pan-Africanism

Posted on January 29, 2024 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Pan-Africanism is a worldwide movement that aims to encourage and strengthen bonds of solidarity between all indigenous and diasporas of African ancestry. Based on a common goal dating back to the Atlantic slave trade, the movement extends beyond continental Africans … Continue reading →

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Erased from utopia: the hidden history of LA’s black and brown resistance – Mike Davis and Jon Wiener

Posted on January 8, 2024 by 1960s: Days of Rage

The activist Angela Davis with the actor Jane Fonda during a demonstration against the Vietnam war at UCLA. “In August 1965, thousands of young Black people in Watts set fire to the illusion that Los Angeles was a youth paradise. … Continue reading →

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Peace and Freedom Party

Posted on January 2, 2024 by 1960s: Days of Rage

1968 Vietnam Era Peace and Freedom Party Logo Button ~ Eldridge Cleaver “The Peace and Freedom Party (PFP) is a left-wing political party with affiliates and former members in more than a dozen American states, including California, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, … Continue reading →

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The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975

Posted on September 17, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The Black Power Mixtape 1967–1975 is a 2011 Swedish documentary film directed by Göran Olsson, that examines the evolution of the Black Power movement in American society from 1967 to 1975 as viewed through Swedish journalists and filmmakers. It features … Continue reading →

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East L.A. walkouts

Posted on April 16, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Sal Castro addresses students during the East L.A. Blowouts in 1968. “The East Los Angeles Walkouts or Chicano Blowouts were a series of 1968 protests by Chicano students against unequal conditions in Los Angeles Unified School District high schools. The … Continue reading →

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Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale: Black Congress (1966)

Posted on April 6, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Original six members of the Black Panther Party (November, 1966) Top left to right: Elbert “Big Man” Howard; Huey P. Newton (Defense Minister), Sherman Forte, Bobby Seale (Chairman). Bottom: Reggie Forte and Little Bobby Hutton (Treasurer). “The Ten-Point Program or … Continue reading →

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March to Montgomery

Posted on November 26, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Participants, some carrying American flags, marching in the civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965 “A week after [James] Reeb’s death, on Wednesday March 17, Judge Johnson ruled in favor of the protesters, saying their First Amendment … Continue reading →

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195: Ramparts Press – Josh MacPhee

Posted on June 17, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“I’m going to try to be a little less complete-ist than I’ve been in the past, hopefully making these posts a bit easier to compile. To that end, this is hardly the complete output of Ramparts Press, but a dozen … Continue reading →

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Robert Penn Warren – Who Speaks for the Negro? (1965)

Posted on February 19, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“In 1965, Random House published Robert Penn Warren’s book titled Who Speaks for the Negro? In preparation for writing the volume, Warren traveled throughout the United States in early 1964 and spoke with large numbers of men and women who … Continue reading →

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Archie Shepp: The great champion of transmission

Posted on July 8, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Archie Shepp and Jason Moran “Let My People Go: a truly symbolic title… It is the refrain from the most famous Negro spiritual, ‘Go Down Moses’, dating from the days of slavery, and in 1853 it was the first one … Continue reading →

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Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Movement

Posted on April 26, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Produced by Blackside, Eyes on the Prize tells the definitive story of the civil rights era from the point of view of the ordinary men and women whose extraordinary actions launched a movement that changed the fabric of American life, … Continue reading →

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Birmingham campaign

Posted on March 16, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

High school students are hit by a high-pressure water jet from a fire hose during a peaceful walk in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963. As photographed by Charles Moore, images like this one, printed in Life, galvanized global support for the … Continue reading →

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The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History

Posted on March 2, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Fred Hampton was the 21-year-old chief of staff and national spokesperson for the Black Panther Party when, on the morning of Dec. 4, 1969, Chicago police broke into his apartment and murdered him. Hampton was considered a charismatic danger by … Continue reading →

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‘Discredit, disrupt and destroy’: UC Berkeley Library acquires FBI records of surveillance of Black leaders

Posted on February 11, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Members of the Black Panthers lined up at a Free Huey (Newton) rally in DeFremery Park in Oakland. “The status quo — hallowed by hate, sanctioned by Jim Crow — was beginning to crack. Behind the scenes, J. Edgar Hoover’s … Continue reading →

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Remembering the Black Panther Party

Posted on October 16, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Charles Bursey hands a plate of food to a child as part of the Black Panther Party’s free breakfast program. “2016 marked the fiftieth anniversary of both Stokely Carmichael’s coining of the phrase ‘Black Power’ and the formation of the … Continue reading →

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The Things We Knew Then: Vivid Then, Fading Now?

Posted on August 28, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“1. James Forman was a. ’68 Olympic heavyweight champion b. national director of the Congress of Racial Equality c. a Czechoslovakian film director d. executive secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee 2. In Easy Rider, Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, … Continue reading →

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Life with the Black Panthers

Posted on February 29, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Kathleen Cleaver and Black Panther co-founder Bobby Seale (right) at a Free Huey rally in Oakland, California, in the summer of 1968. “When Howard Bingham was commissioned by Life magazine in 1967 to photograph the Black Panthers, he was, at … Continue reading →

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Uncovering the Truth About a Raid on the Black Panthers

Posted on January 11, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The call came in the early morning hours of December 4, 1969. ‘Come to the crib’ was the command. ‘The police have murdered Chairman Fred.’ I was a second-year law student at Northwestern Law School, working with a group of … Continue reading →

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Black Arts Movement

Posted on December 13, 2019 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Amiri Baraka (center) and Yusef Iman (second from left) with musicians and actors of the black arts movement, Spirit House, Newark, New Jersey, 1966 “The Black Arts Movement (or BAM) was an African American-led art movement, active during the 1960s … Continue reading →

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The Panthers and the Patriots

Posted on December 4, 2019 by 1960s: Days of Rage

The Black Panthers and Young Patriots hold a press conference in 1969. “In July 1969, the Black Panther Party convened a huge meeting in Oakland that attracted radical groups from across the country. They called it the Conference for a … Continue reading →

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Open City

Posted on November 7, 2019 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Open City was a weekly underground newspaper published in Los Angeles by avant-garde journalist John Bryan from May 6, 1967 to April 1969. It was noted for its coverage of radical politics, rock music, psychedelic culture and the ‘Notes of … Continue reading →

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A Black Panther Guide To Algiers

Posted on May 12, 2019 by 1960s: Days of Rage

August 9, 1969 Black Panther Community News Service cover. “For a brief spell in the early 1970s, global revolutionaries flocked to Algiers much in the same way that galactic freighter pilots descended on Mos Eisley. They came at the behest … Continue reading →

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Black Panthers – Agnès Varda (1968)

Posted on January 26, 2019 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“In 1968, Agnès Varda was living in Los Angeles with her husband, director Jacques Demy, who was there to begin filming his first Hollywood film, Model Shop (1969). Although initially hesitant about living in the United States, the couple quickly … Continue reading →

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COINTELPRO (1956–1971)

Posted on November 25, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

J. Edgar Hoover at Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C., July 24, 1967. “COINTELPRO (Portmanteau derived from COunter INTELligence PROgram) (1956–1971) was a series of covert, and at times illegal, projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation … Continue reading →

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Poetry, Proto-Rap and Soul: The Sounds of the Black Power Revolution

Posted on November 9, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Gil Scott Heron – The Revolution Will Not Be Televised “The word ‘revolution’ has lost its edge in the 21st century. Advertisements inform us there’s a revolution in hair care or a revolutionary new driverless car. But when young Americans … Continue reading →

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Decolonizing society: the legacy of 1968

Posted on October 7, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Student protesters in Paris, May ’68. “In 1964, students at the University of California at Berkeley staged a sit-in at Sproul Hall to protest campus restrictions on political activism. Shouting through his bullhorn, Mario Savio, the leader of the Free … Continue reading →

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Weatherman – edited by Harold Jacobs (1970)

Posted on September 16, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The first complete picture of the Weatherman in the words of those who theorized, those who acted and those who watched it all – from the SDS split in June 1969 to the bombings in June, 1970. Selected by Harold … Continue reading →

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The Siege of Chicago at 50: Todd Gitlin Remembers

Posted on August 5, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Demonstrators greet military police with jeers outside the Democratic National Convention headquarters, August 29, 1968. “A key figure in and historian of the New Left, Todd Gitlin was president of Students for a Democratic Society in 1964–65 and helped organize … Continue reading →

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‘Ramparts’, the muck-racking San Francisco magazine that helped spawn ‘Rolling Stone’

Posted on July 30, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The 50th anniversary of Rolling Stone magazine has arrived, and not without fanfare. Joe Hagan’s biography of co-founder Jann Wenner appeared in October to stellar reviews, and earlier this month, HBO aired Alex Gibney’s documentary film about the magazine’s history. … Continue reading →

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The Whitewashing of King’s Assassination

Posted on July 6, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“‘Woe to you, because you build tombs for the prophets, and it was your ancestors who killed them.’ Jesus’s rebuke to the Pharisees descended upon me on a cold January morning in 2017, in West Potomac Park in Washington, D.C. … Continue reading →

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Algeria and the American Black Panther Party

Posted on July 3, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Eldridge Cleaver “As airline travel became more common in the 1950s and 1960s, hijacking planes also became a common practice. By the early 1970s, nearly 160 high jacking incidents occurred. The book ‘The Skies Belong to Us‘ by the American … Continue reading →

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March Against Fear

Posted on June 4, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

June 1966: Meredith March Against Fear “The March Against Fear was a major 1966 demonstration in the Civil Rights Movement in the South. Activist James Meredith launched the event on June 6, 1966, intending to make a solitary walk from … Continue reading →

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The Report on Race That Shook America

Posted on April 9, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“In July 1967, when President Lyndon B. Johnson formed a commission to analyze the riots then engulfing several major American cities, the radical wing of the civil-rights movement eyed his appointees with grave skepticism. Not only did the 11-person commission … Continue reading →

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The Greatest Week in the History of Avant-Garde Jazz

Posted on April 3, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Thank God somebody bought Lester Bowie’s couch in the spring of 1969. And his chairs, bed and desk. Otherwise, the most glorious week in avant-garde jazz history would never have happened. ‘Lester was selling all the furniture in his house … Continue reading →

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Ramparts

Posted on December 28, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Ramparts was a glossy illustrated American political and literary magazine, published from 1962 to 1975 and closely associated with the New Left political movement. Unlike most of the radical magazines of the day, Ramparts was expensively produced and graphically sophisticated. … Continue reading →

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1968 Olympics Black Power salute

Posted on November 19, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The 1968 Olympics Black Power salute was a political demonstration conducted by African-American athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos during their medal ceremony at the 1968 Summer Olympics in the Olympic Stadium in Mexico City. After having won gold and … Continue reading →

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The March on the Pentagon: An Oral History

Posted on October 22, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Anti-Vietnam War demonstrators run up against military police as they attempt to penetrate security lines at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 21, 1967. “The Vietnam War is the only American conflict remembered as much for the opposition it … Continue reading →

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Soul On Ice – Eldridge Cleaver (1965)

Posted on September 29, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Soul On Ice is a memoir and collection of essays by Eldridge Cleaver. Originally written in Folsom State Prison in 1965, and published three years later in 1968, it is Cleaver’s best known writing and remains a seminal work in … Continue reading →

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The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (2016)

Posted on August 25, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“In the turbulent 1960s, change was coming to America and the fault lines could no longer be ignored — cities were burning, Vietnam was exploding, and disputes raged over equality and civil rights. A new revolutionary culture was emerging and … Continue reading →

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