Computers and Politics: High Technology in American Local Governments

by James N. Danziger

Overview

This book examines the abolitionist and labor press, black power publications of the 1960s, the crusade against the barbarism of lynching, the women's movement, and antiwar journals. Streitmatter also discusses gay and lesbian publications, contemporary on-line journals, and counterculture papers like The Kudzu and The Berkeley Barb that flourished in the 1960s.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231048897
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	05/31/1983
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Rodger Streitmatter is professor of journalism at American University. His books include Raising Her Voice: African-American Women Journalists, Unspeakable: The Rise of the Gay and Lesbian Press in America, and Mightier than the Sword: How the News Media Have Shaped American History.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I. Speaking Up for the Disenfranchised
1. Fighting for the Rights of American Labor
2. Awakening a Nation to the Sins of Slavery
3. Setting a Revolutionary Agenda for Women's Rights Dissident Voices/Common Threads I
Part II. Struggling to Form a More Perfect Union
4. Promoting "Free Love" in the Victorian Age
5. Crusading against the Barbarism of Lynching
6. Educating America on the Merits of Socialism
7. Following Anarchy toward a New Social Order Dissident Voices/Common Threads II
Part III. Rising from a Lone Voice to a Mass Movement
8. Propelling Black Americans into the Promised Land
9. Demanding Wider Access to Birth Control Information Dissident Voices/Common Threads III
Part IV. Changing the World in a Single Generation
10. Opposing America's "Dirty War" in Vietnam
11. Defining a Counterculture of Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n' Roll...and Social Justice
12. Standing Tall and Tough against Racial Oppression
13. Creating an Agenda for Gay and Lesbian Rights
14. Liberating the American Woman Dissident Voices/Common Threads IV
15. Dissidence in a New Millennium Acknowledgments Notes Index