Tag Archives: Black Power

Open City

Posted on November 7, 2019 by

“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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Garbage Fires for Freedom: When Puerto Rican Activists Took Over New York’s Streets

Posted on October 18, 2019 by

During the Puerto Rican Day Parade, members of the Young Lords burned Mayor John Lindsay in effigy as they passed the reviewing stand at Fifth Avenue and 69th Street, according to the photographer’s notes. June 7, 1970. “Hiram Maristany laughs … Continue reading →

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Chicano Movement

Posted on October 11, 2019 by

Antiwar march October 31, 1970, Seattle, two months after the death of Reuben Salazar in the Los Angeles Chicano Moratorium protest “The Chicano Movement of the 1960s, also called the Chicano civil rights movement or El Movimiento, was a civil … Continue reading →

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Flint War Council

Posted on October 8, 2019 by

“The Flint War Council (also known as the SDS National War Council) was a series of meetings of the Weather Underground Organization (WUO) and associates in Flint, Michigan, that took place from 27–31 December 1969. During these meetings, the decisions … Continue reading →

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Training Teenagers for Guerrilla Warfare in the Wealthy Suburbs? Welcome to 1969

Posted on September 26, 2019 by

Stephen Kling using a toy gun and a water balloon “grenade” while teaching guerrilla war tactics to students from Scarsdale High School. The girl in pigtails played a “peasant,” as the original caption put it. Aug. 14, 1969. “In the … Continue reading →

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Underground newspapers: The social media networks of the 1960s and 1970s

Posted on September 15, 2019 by

Published in Detroit from 1965 to 1967, Free Poems Among Friends was one of a large number of literary undergrounds. “The social movements of the 1960s and 1970s transformed American politics, social life, and culture. From civil rights groups, to … Continue reading →

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Third World Liberation Front strikes of 1968

Posted on September 12, 2019 by

SF State cafeteria, site of organizing and speech-making prior to and during the strike. “The Third World Liberation Front (TWLF) rose in 1968 as a coalition of ethnic student groups on college campuses in California in response to the Eurocentric … Continue reading →

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