Category Archives: Free Speech Mov.

When Segregationists Offered One-Way Tickets to Black Southerners

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

Reverse freedom riders on their way to New England boarded a bus in New Orleans in 1962. “When two planeloads of asylum seekers were flown to Martha’s Vineyard last month, Peola Denham Jr. recognized an echo of his own experience … Continue reading →

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Greensboro sit-ins

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

The Greensboro Four: (left to right) David Richmond, Franklin McCain, Ezell A. Blair, Jr., and Joseph McNeil. “The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in February to July 1960, primarily in the Woolworth store—now the International Civil Rights … 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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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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From Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter

Posted on April 21, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

African American students from Saint Augustine College study while participating in a sit-in at a lunch counter reserved for white customers in Raleigh, North Carolina. Two waitresses pointedly ignore them from the other side of the counter. “One evening nine … Continue reading →

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Andrew Kopkind – The Thirty Years’ Wars: Dispatches and Diversions of a Radical Journalist 1965–1994

Posted on January 23, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“In Boston in the 1970s he wrote articles and movie reviews for a range of publications and did regular political commentary for WBCN radio.  … He’d been a contributor to Grand Street, New Left Review, Esquire, Vogue and Il Mani­festo, … Continue reading →

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Free Speech Movement

Posted on August 25, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

In this Oct. 2, 1964 file photo, standing atop the crushed roof of a campus police car, a University of California student asks Cal students to identify themselves during third day of Free Speech Movement demonstrations in Berkeley, Calif. “The … Continue reading →

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How Jazz Helped Fuel the 1960s Civil Rights Movement

Posted on July 18, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

A jazz concert at Jackie Robinson’s home “In 1957, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus decided that integration—mandated three years earlier by Brown v. Board of Ed.—constituted such a state of emergency that he mobilized the National Guard to prevent nine black … Continue reading →

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An End To History – Mario Savio (Dec. 7, 1964)

Posted on December 15, 2019 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Mario Savio, leader of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, speaks to assembled students on the campus at the University of California, Berkeley, on Dec. 7, 1964 “Last summer I went to Mississippi to join the struggle there for civil rights. … Continue reading →

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Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner

Posted on November 29, 2019 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner, also known as the Freedom Summer murders, the Mississippi civil rights workers’ murders or the Mississippi Burning murders, involved three activists who were abducted and murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi in June 1964 … Continue reading →

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