"Past as prologue" : the 1950s as an introduction to the 1960s
1. "Keep on walkin', keep on talkin'": Civil Rights to 1965 :
The power of nonviolence / Martin Luther King
The Jackson sit-in / Anne Moody
Wake up America / John Lewis
Testimony before the Democratic National Convention / Fannie Lou Hamer and Rita Schwerner
SNCC position paper : women in the movement
Sex and caste : a kind of memo / Casey Hayden and Mary King
2. "My generation": the student movement and the new left :
Letter to the new left / C. Wright Mills
Raising the question of who decides / Casey Hayden
How to help the ones at the bottom / Jean Smith ;
The politics of "the movement" / Tom Hayden
Cleveland : Conference of the poor / Connie Brown ;
The free speech movement :
The wedding within the war / Michael Rossman
An end to history / Mario Savio ;
Free speech movement leaflets :
To the students of political science
"Do not fold, bend, mutilate, or spindle"
Catch- 801 / Marvin Garson
Freedom is a big deal / Barbara Garson ;
New left thinking at mid-decade :
In white America : radical consciousness and social change / Gregory Calvert
Student power : a radical view / Carl Davidson.
3. "Say it loud, say it proud": Black nationalism and ethnic consciousness :
Black nationalism and black pride :
The ballot or the bullet / Malcolm X ;
The McCone Commission Report on Watts : Violence in the city
Watts : the aftermath / Paul Bullock
The basis of black power / SNCC
Black art and black liberation / Larry Neal ;
The black panther platform : "what we want, what we believe"
Police and the panthers / Deborah Johnson and Flint Taylor
Requiem for nonviolence, the death of Martin Luther King, Jr. / Eldridge Cleaver
The revolt of the black athlete / Harry Edwards ;
Chicano manifesto / Armando B. Rendon
First National Chicana Conference
The tale of the raza, Cesar Chavez and the farm workers' movement / Luis Valdez ;
The emergence of yellow power / Amy Uyematsu ;
National Indian Youth Council
Watts and Little Big Horn.
4. "Hey, Hey, LBJ!": Vietnam and the antiwar movement :
Background to the war: Vietnam documents :
The Vietnamese declaration of independence
John F. Kennedy and the "domino theory"
Henry Cabot Lodge on removing Diem
The Tonkin Gulf resolution
McGeorge Bundy and "sustained reprisal"
John T. McNaughton's "plan for action for South Vietnam"
George Ball and the internal opposition
Lyndon Johnson on why fight in Vietnam?
One soldier's view : Vietnam letters / George Skakel ;
The incredible war / Paul Potter
Trapped in a system / Carl Oglesby
SDS call for a march on Washington
SNCC position paper on Vietnam
Declaration of independence from the war in Vietnam / Martin Luther King, Jr.
Berrigan at Cornell / Daniel Berrigan ;
Resistance and the draft :
We refuse to serve / The Resistance
A time to say no / Michael Ferber ;
An open letter to the corporations of America
Beaver 55 strikes again ;
Antiwar activity within the military :
Home before morning / Lynda Van Devanter
Vietnam veterans against the war / John Kerry
One vet remembers / Robert Cagle.
5. "Eight miles high"" the counterculture :
Trout fishing in America / Richard Brautigan
The living theatre / Pierre Biner
San Francisco Bray / Richard Goldstein
Love, Janis / Janis Joplin
Nothing would ever be the same / Danny Sugerman
Rock and roll is a weapon of cultural revolution / John Sinclair
Buddhism and the coming revolution / Gary Snyder
Are you running with me, Jesus? / Malcolm Boyd ;
Confessions of a middle-aged pot smoker
LSD : the acid test / Donovan Bess
The teachings of Don Juan : a Yaqui way of knowledge / Carlos Castaneda ;
What is a hippie? / Guy Strait
The human be-in / Helen Swick Perry
The alternative / William Hedgepath.
6. "Love it or leave it": the conservative impulse in a radical age :
1964 acceptance speech / Barry Goldwater ;
The conservative impulse in politics :
If mob rule takes hold in the U.S. / Richard Nixon
Freedom vs. anarchy on campus / Ronald Reagan ;
Why Wallace? / Michael Novak ;
Conservative response to 1960s issues :
The John Birch Society and the Vietnam war
Communist infiltration / Edwin Willis
Impudence in the streets / Spiro T. Agnew
Tony Imperiale stands vigilant for law and order / Paul Goldberger ;
COINTELPRO and homophobia
COINTELPRO and violence ; Counter-counterculture :
Rhythm, riots and revolution / David Noebel.
7. "The whole world is watching": 1968 ... and after :
Two, three, many Columbias / Tom Hayden
Columbia liberated / Columbia Strike Coordinating Committee
List of strike demands / San Francisco State Black Student Union and Third World Liberation Front
Harvard : the rulers and the ruled
Harvard University strike poster
Students of the world ...
Student uprisings rock Mexico
The McCarthy campaign / Jeremy Larner
An American melodrama / Lewis Chester, Godfrey Hodgson, and Bruce Page
The Chicago Democratic Convention / Jeremy Larner
Rights in conflict / The Walker Commission
The New Left splinters: the weather underground :
8. "She's leaving home": the women's liberation movement :
The problem that has no name / Betty Friedan
Job discrimination and what women can do about it / Alice Rossi
What would it be like if women win / Gloria Steinem ;
Principles / New York Radical Women
About my consciousness raising / Barbara Susan
The politics of housework / Pat Mainardi ;
Women's political action :
Women support Panther sisters
Women destroy draft files
Free our sisters, free ourselves
Goodbye to all that / Robin Morgan ;
Our bodies, our sexuality :
The myth of the vaginal orgasm / Anne Koedt
An abortion testimonial / Barbara Susan
The women-identified woman / Radicalesbians ;
Race, ethnicity, and class: feminist issues :
To my white working-class sisters / Debby D'Amico
Double jeopardy : to be black and female / Frances Beal
To whom will she cry rape? / Abbey Lincoln
The Mexican-American woman / Enriqueta Longauex y Vasquez
Conference of Mexican-American women : un remolino / Francisca Flores
What is reality? / Francisca Flores
The Young Lords Party / Denise Oliver
Politics of the interior.
9. "When the music's over": endings and beginnings :
The meaning of People's Park / John Oliver Simon
Who owns the park? / Frank Bardacke
Human values and People's Park / Denise Levertov
Kent State and the Jackson State :
Kent State / The President's Commission on Campus Unrest
Get off our campus / Tom Grace
What did they expect, spitballs? / James Michener
Jackson State / The President's Commission on Campus Unrest ;
Does research into homosexuality matter? / Franklin Kameny
The homophile puzzle / Clark Polak
Gay power comes to Sheridan Square / Lucian K. Truscott
What we want, what we believe / Third World Gay Liberation
Lesbians and the ultimate liberation of women / Gay Liberation Front Women ;
A fleeting, wonderful moment of "community"
Coming of age in Aquarius / Andrew Kopkind
The Rolling Stones: at play in the Apocalypse / Michael Lydon ;
The environmental movement :
The population bomb / Paul Ehrlich
Lake Erie water / Barry Commoner
Diet for a small planet / Frances Moore Lappé ;
To recapture the dream / Julius Lester.
