Tag Archives: Civil Rights Mov.

The Price of Peace Is Confusion – Renata Adler

Posted on June 20, 2020 by

Anti-Vietnam War protestors march on Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C., November 27, 1965. December 4, 1965: “At almost every major university in the country, mimeograph machines operate by night in cluttered student apartments, coffeehouses are filled by day with animated political … Continue reading →

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Robin Morgan

Posted on June 19, 2020 by

Robin Morgan, Susan Brownmiller, and Gloria Steinem “Robin Morgan (born January 29, 1941) is an American poet, author, political theorist and activist, journalist, lecturer, and former child actor. Since the early 1960s she has been a key radical feminist member of … Continue reading →

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Sit-in movement

Posted on June 15, 2020 by

Student sit-in at Woolworth in Durham, North Carolina on February 10, 1960. “The sit-in movement, or student sit-in movement, was a wave of sit-ins that followed the Greensboro sit-ins on February 1, 1960 in North Carolina. The sit-in movement employed … Continue reading →

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Noam Chomsky Explains the Best Way for Ordinary People to Make Change in the World, Even When It Seems Daunting

Posted on June 8, 2020 by

“The threat of widespread violence and unrest descends upon the country, thanks again to a collection of actors viciously opposed to civil rights, and in many cases, to the very existence of people who are different from them. They have … Continue reading →

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Richard Avedon: Murals & Portraits

Posted on May 28, 2020 by

Richard Avedon photographing SNCC demonstrators, March 1963 “Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of Richard Avedon’s legendary photographic murals and related portraits. The exhibition has been drawn from the collection of and developed in collaboration with The Richard … Continue reading →

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‘A Change Is Gonna Come’, a hymn for Civil Rights

Posted on May 25, 2020 by

Cassius Clay & Sam Cooke, 1963 “… Just after releasing this song and recording with his friend Muhammed Ali, Sam Cooke was murdered under somewhat mysterious circumstances. The story behind this masterpiece – and the song itself – is enough … Continue reading →

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We’ll Never Turn Back (1963)

Posted on May 17, 2020 by

“We’ll Never Turn Back contains unique footage of share croppers and voter registration activists telling their stories of heroism and hardship encountered in their fight to gain the right to vote in Mississippi in 1963. Fannie Lou Hamer tells her story of … Continue reading →

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The Musical Legacy of Amiri Baraka

Posted on March 22, 2020 by

“January 2017 marked the third anniversary of the death of poet, activist, playwright and music historian Amiri Baraka, formerly known as LeRoi Jones. For nearly five decades, Baraka stood as a critical figure in black art and literature, helping to … Continue reading →

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Artifacts of the Analog Era – Rex Weiner

Posted on March 12, 2020 by

“As I pack the FedEx box addressed to the Interference Archive in Brooklyn, New York—a nonprofit study center for ‘objects created as part of social movements by the participants themselves: posters, flyers, publications, zines, t-shirts and buttons, audio recordings…’—I am … Continue reading →

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We Shall Overcome: The Power Of Protest Songs

Posted on March 4, 2020 by

“… The idea of protest singers as finger-picking folkies had been long cemented in popular culture, going back to the 60s, when Bob Dylan brought songs such as ‘The Times They Are A-Changin’’ to the masses, spawning countless copyists voicing … Continue reading →

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