Tag Archives: CORE

In the summer of ’63, black students led protests against the South Bay’s white-only neighborhoods

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

Hundreds of demonstrators jam sidewalks in the Southwood housing tract to march for fair housing in 1963. “It was the hot, fraught summer of 1963. Every weekend 18-year-old college students Bobbie and Renee Hodges would trek over to the boiling, … Continue reading →

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Voting Rights Act of 1965

Posted on August 6, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

In this Aug. 6, 1965, photo, President Lyndon Baines Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in a ceremony in the President’s Room near the Senate Chambers on Capitol Hill in Washington. “The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is … Continue reading →

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CORE in Brooklyn: A Small Army on the Move (April 21, 1964)

Posted on March 1, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“‘We have a hymn—Like a Mighty Army Moves the Church. Brooklyn CORE is not a mighty army. It’s a small army — but it moves.’ The speaker was the Rev. Dr. Milton A. Galamison, who vowed last summer never to … Continue reading →

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Blowin’ in the Wind: A Folk-Music Revolt – Jack Newfield (Jan. 14, 1965)

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

“On the frontier of every art form guerilla bands of prophets and crackpots are nourishing the orthodoxies and fashions of tomorrow. A decade ago the frontier outlaws were men like Miles Davis, Paul Goodman, and Norman Mailer. Bereft of followers, … 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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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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Sit-in movement

Posted on June 15, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

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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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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The Highway Was Supposed to Save This City. Can Tearing It Down Fix the Sins of the Past?

Posted on August 3, 2019 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Helen Hudson will tell you what the 15th Ward was like when she was a girl. In the 1950s and early ’60s, the Syracuse neighborhood was home to thousands of predominantly black residents who had settled in the growing upstate … Continue reading →

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Bloody Tuesday

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

“Bloody Tuesday was a march that occurred on June 9, 1964 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama during the Civil Rights Movement. The march was both organized and led by Rev. T. Y. Rogers and was to protest against segregated drinking fountains and … Continue reading →

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Martin Luther King Jr. Saw Three Evils in the World

Posted on January 21, 2019 by 1960s: Days of Rage

September 10, 1963 in New York, New York. “Three major evils—the evil of racism, the evil of poverty, and the evil of war. These are the three things that I want to deal with today. Now let us turn first … Continue reading →

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Hunters Point Uprising

Posted on October 10, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Newcomb and 3rd Street – Sept. 28, 1966 “On September 27, 1966 a white police officer shot and killed a seventeen-year-old African American teen, Matthew Johnson, Jr., as he fled the scene of a stolen car. Arthur Hippler wrote a … 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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Half the Way with Mao Zedong

Posted on May 27, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The American left has never produced a group more self-critical than Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). In the years since the organization’s 1969 collapse, its former members have produced an endless stream of mea culpas. Some of this has … Continue reading →

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CORE

Posted on April 15, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

James Farmer “The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States that played a pivotal role for African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement. Founded in 1942, its stated mission is ‘to bring … Continue reading →

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The Bobby Kennedy Pathway

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

Robert Kennedy campaigning in Philadelphia in 1968. “… But a half-century ago, a champion of civil rights offered a third approach: a liberalism without elitism and a populism without racism. In a remarkable 82-day campaign, Senator Robert F. Kennedy ran … Continue reading →

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Memories of Mississippi – Danny Lyon

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

Danny Lyon outside a movement headquarters in Albany, Georgia, 1962 “It was the summer of 1962. I had just finished my third year at the University of Chicago. My 650cc Triumph motorcycle was damaged, leaving me grounded and bored. One … Continue reading →

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“Even poverty is ancient history”: Resurrection City, 1968 By Jill Freedman

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

Demonstrators in the streets, Poor People’s Campaign, Washington D.C., 1968. “… I knew I had to shoot the Poor People’s Campaign when they murdered Martin Luther King Jr. I had to see what was happening, to record it and be part … Continue reading →

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We Insist! Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite (1960)

Posted on January 26, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“We Insist! (subtitled Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite) is a jazz album released on Candid Records in 1960. It contains a suite which composer and drummer Max Roach and lyricist Oscar Brown had begun to develop in 1959 with a … Continue reading →

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Neshoba: The Price of Freedom

Posted on January 15, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Promoting the awareness of dangerous facts without editorializing becomes an aggressive political act in Neshoba: The Price of Freedom, co-directed by frequent collaborators Micki Dickoff and Tony Pagano. Excavating the onerous past of Philadelphia, Mississippi, the film is less about … Continue reading →

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Greyhound Bus Station – Montgomery, Alabama

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

“The Greyhound Bus Station at 210 South Court Street in Montgomery, Alabama, was the site of a violent attack on participants in the 1961 Freedom Ride during the Civil Rights Movement. The May 1961 assaults, carried out by a mob … Continue reading →

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Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power

Posted on November 11, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Romare Bearden: Pittsburgh Memory, 1964, mixed media collage of printed papers and graphite on board, 8½ by 11¾ inches. “The show opens in 1963 at the height of the Civil Rights movement and its dreams of integration. In its wake … Continue reading →

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Nancy Kurshan

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

Nancy Kurshan and Anita Hoffman, W.I.T.C.H. “Nancy Sarah Kurshan (born February 4, 1944 in Brooklyn, NY) is an American activist, raised as a ‘red diaper baby‘, and best known for being a founder of the Youth International Party (whose members … Continue reading →

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Cicero March (1966)

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

State troopers are bowled over by people who had been heckling civil rights marchers in Cicero “Cicero March is a 1966 short documentary film made by the Chicago-based production company, The Film Group. The film details a civil rights march … Continue reading →

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Dick Gregory

Posted on August 8, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Richard Claxton ‘Dick’ Gregory (born October 12, 1932) is an American civil rights activist, social critic, writer, entrepreneur, comedian, conspiracy theorist and occasional actor. … Active in the Civil Rights Movement, on October 7, 1963, Gregory came to Selma, Alabama, … Continue reading →

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“I Have a Dream” – Martin Luther King Jr. – August 28, 1963

Posted on August 5, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“‘I Have a Dream’ is a public speech delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963, in which he calls for an end to racism … Continue reading →

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Jack Newfield

Posted on July 17, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Jack Abraham Newfield (February 18, 1938 – December 21, 2004) was an American muckraking journalist, columnist, author, documentary filmmaker, activist, and fierce champion of underdogs. Newfield wrote for the Village Voice, New York Daily News, New York Post, New York Sun, … Continue reading →

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The Forgotten Power of the Vietnam Protest, 1965-1975 by Tom Hayden

Posted on July 14, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The era of protest against Vietnam – 1965-75 – was unique as the emergence of a nationwide peace movement on a scale not seen before in American history. There were previous war resisters, for example, the Society of Friends, the … Continue reading →

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St. Augustine movement

Posted on July 5, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“A state police officer with club in hand overtakes a white segregationist, as African Americans attempted to swim and were attacked by a large group of whites at St. Augustine Beach, Florida, on June 25, 1964. The state police arrested … Continue reading →

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University of Chicago sit-ins

Posted on June 30, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The University of Chicago sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests at the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois in 1962. The protests were called to end the reported segregation of students in the university. Led by a young Bernie … Continue reading →

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Freedom Riders

Posted on June 10, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Freedom Riders Bus Burned near Anniston, Alabama, 1961. “Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years in order to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme … Continue reading →

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