Leaders from the 1960s: A Biographical Sourcebook of American Activism
The throngs at Woodstock, Jane Fonda in Hanoi, I Have a Dream, burning draft cards, fire in the streets—these images of the 1960s are still very much alive today. What happened to the people and principles that dominated that decade? Which leaders from those turbulent years had the most lasting effect on our lives today? How well have the principles for which those leaders fought so strongly withstood the test of time? This thought-provoking biographical dictionary allows the reader to study the leaders, both conservative and liberal, their ideals, and their enduring influence.

With major sections on racial democracy, peace and freedom, sexuality and gender, the environment, radical culture, and visions of alternative societies, Leaders from the 1960s includes entries on a wide selection of nationally prominent activists of the 1960s. In addition to those who dominated only the sixties, the volume includes earlier activists who came into prominence in the 1960s and activists of the era who came into prominence since the 1960s. Each entry provides a biographical sketch, but the focus of the entries is on the person's basic concepts or the essence of his or her work and the public response it generated. Included are extensive bibliographies on the individuals and the period.

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Leaders from the 1960s: A Biographical Sourcebook of American Activism
The throngs at Woodstock, Jane Fonda in Hanoi, I Have a Dream, burning draft cards, fire in the streets—these images of the 1960s are still very much alive today. What happened to the people and principles that dominated that decade? Which leaders from those turbulent years had the most lasting effect on our lives today? How well have the principles for which those leaders fought so strongly withstood the test of time? This thought-provoking biographical dictionary allows the reader to study the leaders, both conservative and liberal, their ideals, and their enduring influence.

With major sections on racial democracy, peace and freedom, sexuality and gender, the environment, radical culture, and visions of alternative societies, Leaders from the 1960s includes entries on a wide selection of nationally prominent activists of the 1960s. In addition to those who dominated only the sixties, the volume includes earlier activists who came into prominence in the 1960s and activists of the era who came into prominence since the 1960s. Each entry provides a biographical sketch, but the focus of the entries is on the person's basic concepts or the essence of his or her work and the public response it generated. Included are extensive bibliographies on the individuals and the period.

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Leaders from the 1960s: A Biographical Sourcebook of American Activism

Leaders from the 1960s: A Biographical Sourcebook of American Activism

by David De Leon
Leaders from the 1960s: A Biographical Sourcebook of American Activism

Leaders from the 1960s: A Biographical Sourcebook of American Activism

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The throngs at Woodstock, Jane Fonda in Hanoi, I Have a Dream, burning draft cards, fire in the streets—these images of the 1960s are still very much alive today. What happened to the people and principles that dominated that decade? Which leaders from those turbulent years had the most lasting effect on our lives today? How well have the principles for which those leaders fought so strongly withstood the test of time? This thought-provoking biographical dictionary allows the reader to study the leaders, both conservative and liberal, their ideals, and their enduring influence.

With major sections on racial democracy, peace and freedom, sexuality and gender, the environment, radical culture, and visions of alternative societies, Leaders from the 1960s includes entries on a wide selection of nationally prominent activists of the 1960s. In addition to those who dominated only the sixties, the volume includes earlier activists who came into prominence in the 1960s and activists of the era who came into prominence since the 1960s. Each entry provides a biographical sketch, but the focus of the entries is on the person's basic concepts or the essence of his or her work and the public response it generated. Included are extensive bibliographies on the individuals and the period.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780313274145
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 06/22/1994
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 632
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 1.31(d)
Lexile: 1320L (what's this?)

About the Author

DAVID DeLEON is Associate Professor of History at Howard University. His most recent book is Everything Is Changing: Contemporary U.S. Movements in Historical Perspective (Praeger, 1988).

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Racial Democracy
Dennis Banks by Raymond Wilson
Imamu Amiri Baraka [Leroi Jones] by Alan Spears
Vernon Bellecourt by Rolland Dewing
Mary Frances Berry by Genna Rae McNeil
Julian Bond by Peter B. Levy
H. Rap Brown [Jamil Adullah Al-Amin] by Maceo Dailey, Jr.
César Chávez by John C. Hammerback and Richard J. Jensen
Shirley Chisholm by Debra Newman Ham
Eldridge Cleaver by Kenneth O'Reilly
Vine Deloria, Jr. by Clifford M. Lytle, Jr.
James Farmer by Paula F. Pfeffer
Louis Farrakhan by Lawrence H. Mamiya
James Forman by Glenn Perusek
José Angel Gutiérrez by Richard J. Jensen and John C. Hammerback
Fannie Lou Hamer by Kay Mills
Martin Luther King, Jr. by Ralph E. Luker
Russell Means by Raymond Wilson
Robert Parris Moses by Eric Burner
Leonard Peltier by L. G. Moses
Bayard Rustin by Donald Roe
Bobby Seale by Rev. Cecil Gray
Reies Lopéz Tijerina by John C. Hammerback and Richard J. Jensen
Malcolm X [El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz] by David DeLeon
Peace and Freedom
Philip Berrigan by Anne Klejment
Rev. William Sloane Coffin, Jr. by Milton S. Katz
Ron Kovic by John Kultgen
Staughton Lynd by Glen Perusek
David McReynolds by Larry Gara
Mark Rudd by W. J. Rorabaugh
Mario Savio by W. J. Rorabaugh
Dr. Benjamin Spock by William Graebner
Sexuality and Gender: Liberation from Stereotypes
Bella Abzug by Susan M. Hartman
Ti-Grace Atkinson by Beatrice K. Reynolds
Betty Friedan by Frances Arick Kolb
Frank Kameny by David K. Johnson
Del Martin/Phyllis Lyon by Kate Brandt
William H. Masters/Virginia E. Johnson by Sara Alpern
Eleanor Holmes Norton by Lillian Williams
Gloria Steinem by Frances Arick Kolb
For a Safe Environment
Edward Abbey by Kingsley Widmer
Murray Bookchin by John Clark
Lester Brown by Sean M. Enright
Barry Commoner by Charles T. Rubin
Paul Ehrlich by Kathryn Wald Hausbeck
Denis Hayes by W. J. Rorabaugh
Ralph Nader by Jennifer Scarlott
Radical Culture
Joan Baez by Ronald D. Cohen
Peter Collier/David Horowitz by Thomas R. West
Bob Dylan by Ronald D. Cohen
Jane Fonda by Regina Akers
H. Bruce Franklin by W. J. Rorabaugh
Allen Ginsberg by Linda Hamalian
Dick Gregory by Thomas Joseph Davis
John Holt by Susan Douglas Franzosa
Irving Howe by Alan Wald
Maulana Ron Karenga by Waldo E. Martin, Jr.
Ken Kesey by Stephen L. Tanner
Jonathan Kozol by Peter Andre Sola
Julius Lester by Priscilla Ramsey
Country Joe McDonald by David Pichaske
Phil Ochs by David Pichaske
Kenneth Rexroth by Geoffrey Gardner
Jerry Rubin by Leslie Fishbein
Pete Seeger by Robbie Lieberman
John Alexander Sinclair by William Graebner
Gore Vidal by Kingsley Widmer
Visions of Alternative Societies
Heather Booth by Ann Withorn
Noam Chomsky by Carlos P. Otero
Angela Davis by Sylvia Bennett Hill
Dorothy Day by Mel Piehl
Ronald V. Dellums by Robert C. Smith
Paul Goodman by Taylor Stoehr
Michael Harrington by Gary Dorrien
Tom Hayden by Thomas R. Maddux
Dorothy Healey by Maurice Isserman
Jesse Jackson by Russell L. Adams
C. L. R. James by Kent Worcester
Margaret (Maggie) Kuhn by W. Andrew Achenbaum
William Moses Kunstler by John Wildeman
Sidney Lens by Edward K. Spann
Herbert Marcuse by Douglas Kellner
I. F. Stone by Robert Cottrell
James Weinstein by Sally Miller

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