Tag Archives: MLKJr.

Life with the Black Panthers

Posted on February 29, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Kathleen Cleaver and Black Panther co-founder Bobby Seale (right) at a Free Huey rally in Oakland, California, in the summer of 1968. “When Howard Bingham was commissioned by Life magazine in 1967 to photograph the Black Panthers, he was, at … Continue reading →

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South Vietnam Had an Antiwar Movement, Too

Posted on February 7, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Students marching in an anti-American protest in South Vietnam, in 1965. “The year 1967 was a watershed for antiwar protest in the United States, from bold statements like the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Riverside Church speech in April … Continue reading →

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“I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” – Martin Luther King Jr. (April 3, 1968)

Posted on January 19, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“‘I’ve Been to the Mountaintop’ is the popular name of the last speech delivered by Martin Luther King Jr.King spoke on April 3, 1968, at the Mason Temple (Church of God in Christ Headquarters) in Memphis, Tennessee. On the following … Continue reading →

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What Was the Vietnam War About?

Posted on January 16, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

A group of South Vietnamese army soldiers and an American soldier with two captured Vietcong suspects, in Plaines des Joncs, South Vietnam. “Was America’s war in Vietnam a noble struggle against Communist aggression, a tragic intervention in a civil conflict, … Continue reading →

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Black Arts Movement

Posted on December 13, 2019 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Amiri Baraka (center) and Yusef Iman (second from left) with musicians and actors of the black arts movement, Spirit House, Newark, New Jersey, 1966 “The Black Arts Movement (or BAM) was an African American-led art movement, active during the 1960s … 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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Albany Movement

Posted on September 22, 2019 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The Albany Movement was a desegregation and voter’s rights coalition formed in Albany, Georgia, in November 1961. Local black leaders and ministers, as well as members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and the National Association for the Advancement … Continue reading →

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Letter from Birmingham Jail – Martin Luther King Jr. (April 16, 1963)

Posted on July 17, 2019 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The Letter from Birmingham Jail, also known as the Letter from Birmingham City Jail and The Negro Is Your Brother, is an open letter written on April 16, 1963, by Martin Luther King Jr. The letter defends the strategy of … Continue reading →

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The First Contact Sheet of the Counterculture

Posted on July 11, 2019 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“It was a typical Village Voice front page from 1967: Over the left two columns, a street portrait of the ‘dean of American pacifists,’ A.J. Muste; over the right two, an action shot of police arresting Charlotte Moorman, the Juilliard-trained … Continue reading →

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The turning point: 1968

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

President Johnson reviews reports from Khe Sanh in the White House situation room “It was February 5, 1968, and Washington Star reporter Jack Horner had an angry President Lyndon Johnson on the phone. Johnson liked Horner and was willing to … Continue reading →

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Two Minutes to Midnight: The Very Last Hurrah by Pete Hamill

Posted on April 6, 2019 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“LOS ANGELES — It was, of course, two minutes to midnight an the Embassy Room of the Ambassador Hotel was rowdy with triumph. Red and blue balloons drifted up through three golden chandeliers to bump against a gilded ceiling. Young … Continue reading →

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50 Years of Affirmative Action: What Went Right, and What It Got Wrong

Posted on March 30, 2019 by 1960s: Days of Rage

The commencement for the Class of 1973 at Columbia University. The number of black students admitted to Columbia rose sharply in 1969. About half of those who enrolled graduated four years later. “On cold mornings, Les Goodson shows up early … 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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5 surprising things that 1960s TV changed

Posted on March 2, 2019 by 1960s: Days of Rage

By 1960, television was firmly entrenched as America’s new hearth. Close to 90% of households had a TV, making the device almost ubiquitous. The ensuing decade would see the medium grow in both importance and range. “… And oh yeah, … Continue reading →

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When Martin Luther King Came to Harlem

Posted on February 20, 2019 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Less than a year before his assassination, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. came to Harlem. In the June 22, 1967, Village Voice, contributor Marlene Nadle observed the crowd anxiously awaiting the Baptist minister’s arrival: ‘Using programs folded accordion style instead of … Continue reading →

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The Last Poets (1970)

Posted on February 4, 2019 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“You can trace the birth of hip-hop to the summer of 1973 when Kool Herc DJ’d the first extended breakbeat, much to the thrill of the dancers at a South Bronx block party. You can trace its conception, however, to … 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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William Sloane Coffin

Posted on January 16, 2019 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Rev. William Sloane Coffin, center, followed by his sister Mary Lindsey, left, arrives at the Federal Building in Boston in this May 20, 1968 file photo. Coffin and four others including Dr. Benjamin Spock were preparing to go on trial … Continue reading →

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Nashville sit-ins

Posted on December 8, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Agitators attack a sit-in demonstrator at Woolworth’s lunch counter, February 27, 1960. “The Nashville sit-ins, which lasted from February 13 to May 10, 1960, were part of a nonviolent direct action campaign to end racial segregation at lunch counters in … Continue reading →

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COINTELPRO (1956–1971)

Posted on November 25, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

J. Edgar Hoover at Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C., July 24, 1967. “COINTELPRO (Portmanteau derived from COunter INTELligence PROgram) (1956–1971) was a series of covert, and at times illegal, projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation … Continue reading →

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Aquarius Rising

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

A protester at a demonstration against the Vietnam War during the Democratic National Convention, Chicago, 1968 “Certain years acquire an almost numinous quality in collective memory—1789, 1861, 1914. One of the more recent additions to the list is 1968. Its … Continue reading →

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Torrential, Gut-Bucket Jazz

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

Ornette Coleman with Don Cherry at the 5 Spot Cafe, New York City, November 17, 1959 “It happened that on the day the great saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman died I was watching a preview of a recently salvaged film … Continue reading →

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The Second Emancipation

Posted on August 2, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

March on Washington, DC, 1963. “I want to reacquaint people with King. We tend to misremember him as primarily a civil rights activist when his agenda for change went beyond civil and voting rights to changing the structures of racism, … Continue reading →

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‘Ramparts’, the muck-racking San Francisco magazine that helped spawn ‘Rolling Stone’

Posted on July 30, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The 50th anniversary of Rolling Stone magazine has arrived, and not without fanfare. Joe Hagan’s biography of co-founder Jann Wenner appeared in October to stellar reviews, and earlier this month, HBO aired Alex Gibney’s documentary film about the magazine’s history. … Continue reading →

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The Anti-Vietnam War Movement In 39 Photos

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

Prominent civil rights leaders and activists would come out against the war as the decade wore on. In 1967, Martin Luther King Jr. told the Harlem Riverside Church congregation. “In 2003, Senator John Kerry offered the following thoughts on the … Continue reading →

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The Whitewashing of King’s Assassination

Posted on July 6, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“‘Woe to you, because you build tombs for the prophets, and it was your ancestors who killed them.’ Jesus’s rebuke to the Pharisees descended upon me on a cold January morning in 2017, in West Potomac Park in Washington, D.C. … Continue reading →

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How LBJ Saved the Civil Rights Act

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

“On the winter of 1963, as the Civil Rights Act worked its way through Congress, Justice William Brennan decided to play for time. The Supreme Court had recently heard arguments in the appeal of 12 African American protesters arrested at … 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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A Most Violent Year

Posted on May 22, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“It was neither the best nor the worst of times. But in contrast to the relative placidity of the 1950s, the events of 1968 opened up previously unimaginable vistas to people all across the globe. ‘We knew about the Paris … Continue reading →

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Uptight – Jules Dassin (1968)

Posted on May 5, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Uptight (also known as Up Tight!) is a 1968 American drama film directed by Jules Dassin. It was intended as an updated version of John Ford‘s 1935 film The Informer, based on the book of the same name by Liam … Continue reading →

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The Report on Race That Shook America

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

“In July 1967, when President Lyndon B. Johnson formed a commission to analyze the riots then engulfing several major American cities, the radical wing of the civil-rights movement eyed his appointees with grave skepticism. Not only did the 11-person commission … Continue reading →

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Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Civil rights ldr. Andrew Young (L) and others standing on balcony of Lorraine motel pointing in direction of assailant after assassination of civil rights ldr. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who is lying at their feet. “Martin Luther King Jr., … 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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Restoring King

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

“Every year, in January and April, we commemorate the extraordinary career of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. But there is probably no figure in recent American history whose memory is more distorted, whose message is more bowdlerized, whose powerful … Continue reading →

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Fragging

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

Spartan Airsoft – M26 Dummy Frag Grenade Set [Vietnam Era] “The term fragging is used to describe the deliberate killing or attempted killing by a soldier of a fellow soldier, usually a superior officer or non-commissioned officer (NCO). The word … Continue reading →

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Radio Atlantic: How Has America Changed Since 1968?

Posted on January 6, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“As 2018 begins, tensions and tumult in America are high. But before the end of 1968, Conor Friedersdorf reminded us in The Atlantic, ‘Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy would be assassinated; U.S. troops would suffer their deadliest … 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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Ramparts

Posted on December 28, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Ramparts was a glossy illustrated American political and literary magazine, published from 1962 to 1975 and closely associated with the New Left political movement. Unlike most of the radical magazines of the day, Ramparts was expensively produced and graphically sophisticated. … Continue reading →

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The Incendiary Photography of Jill Freedman

Posted on December 18, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Jill Freedman and Demonstrator, Poor People’s campaign, Washington, D.C., 1968. “When she was twenty-six years old, Jill Freedman saw policemen knocking down Vietnam War protesters in New York City. Passionately anti-war, she asked a friend for a camera and began … Continue reading →

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Liberation Magazine (1956–77)

Posted on December 2, 2017 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Liberation Magazine (1956–77) was a bimonthly, later a monthly, magazine identified in the 1960s with the New Left. Liberation was founded, published, and edited by David Dellinger, Bayard Rustin, Sidney Lens, Roy Finch, and A. J. Muste out of New … Continue reading →

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