Tag Archives: Black Power

Katherine Ann Power: Weather Underground

Posted on November 20, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Katherine Ann Power (born January 25, 1949), also known under the aliases Mae Kelly and Alice Louise Metzinger, is an American ex-convict and long-time fugitive, who, along with her fellow student and accomplice Susan Edith Saxe, was placed on the … Continue reading →

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How the Chicago Freedom Movement Made Way for the Fair Housing Act

Posted on September 30, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Chicago Freedom Movement march, South Kedzie Avenue, August 5, 1966 “History teaches us about important lessons, people, and events. It shapes a nation. It tells us who we are and where we came from. It tells us about our past … Continue reading →

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Abiodun Oyewole – One of the First Last Poets – Talks About Legacy, and Hip Hop

Posted on September 22, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

The Last Poets in 1970; half a century later—and counting—Oyewole is keeping poetry in the moment. “A founding member of the American music and spoken-word group The Last Poets, Abiodun Oyewole is also known as a founding father of hip … Continue reading →

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Meet ‘The Afronauts’: An Introduction to Zambia’s Forgotten 1960s Space Program

Posted on July 25, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Broadly speaking, the ‘Space Race’ of the 1950s and 60s involved two major players, the United States and the Soviet Union. But there were also minor players: take, for instance, the Zambian Space Program, founded and administered by just one … Continue reading →

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A Black Panther love story

Posted on July 21, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

February 1969: Pete O’Neal talks about the formation of the Kansas City chapter of the Black Panther Party. “Charlotte Hill O’Neal is known by several names. Residents of the Arusha region of northern Tanzania, where she has lived for decades, … 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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Where’s the Revolutionary Punch? Richard Fariña’s Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me at 50

Posted on June 13, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Mimi and Richard Fariña, at the Newport Folk Festival in July 1965. “On May 23, 1958, Cornell University’s serene, gorge-encircled campus exploded in anarchic student demonstrations that presaged the widespread campus upheaval of the 1960s. Less disciplined and more inward-looking … Continue reading →

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Langston Hughes

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

“James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1901– May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. One of the earliest innovators of the literary art form called jazz poetry, Hughes is best known … Continue reading →

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After Black Power, Women’s Liberation By Gloria Steinem (April 1969)

Posted on May 3, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Once upon a time—say, ten or even five years ago—a Liberated Woman was somebody who had sex before marriage and a job afterward. Once upon the same time, a Liberated Zone was any foreign place lucky enough to have an … Continue reading →

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Year of the Mad Bomber

Posted on April 20, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Sam Melville “Throughout much of 1968, Sam Melville, an unemployed 34-year-old with an estranged wife and 5-year-old son, frequently sat at his desk in a squalid apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, contemplating how he could destroy America. … Continue reading →

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