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Rap Brown said it: ‘Violence is as American as cherry pie’
The right to armed self-defense of civil rights workers in the 1960s has been parodied by white right-wing racists defending themselves against the ‘tyranny’ of a federal government run by a black man. By Ed Felien | The Rag Blog … Continue reading
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Poor whites respond to Black rebellion, plus Buffalo Gap and the Klan, 1967-’68
The summers of 1967 and ’68 were hot — real hot — and we were in the ‘guts of the ogre.’ By Michael James | The Rag Blog | March 3, 2014 [In this series, Michael James is sharing images … Continue reading
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Tagged 1968 Democratic Convention, Black Power, Black Uprising, Civil Rights Movement, Community Organizing, Fannie Lou Hamer, JOIN Community Union, Memoir, Michael James, New Left, nostalgia, Peace Movement, Peggy Terry, Pictures from the Long Haul, Rag Bloggers, Rennie Davis, Rising Up Angry, SDS, Sixties, SNCC, Travel, Uptown Chicago, Vietnam War
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Bob Feldman : Civil Rights, SDS, and Student Activism in Austin, Texas, 1954-1973
Massive march against the War in Vietnam, Austin, Texas, May 8, 1970. Image from The Rag Blog. The hidden history of Texas Part 13: 1954-1973/2 — Student Activism and the Anti-War Movement at the University of Texas By Bob Feldman … Continue reading
Tony Platt : My Friend Betita Martinez
Betita Martinez. Photo from SF Gate.‘The heart just insists’:My friend Betita Martinez As the daughter of a dark-skinned immigrant from Mexico City and a blue-eyed North American, she felt racism in the air, ‘but I did not have words for … Continue reading
Carl Davidson on SNCC : Blazing the Trail
Harry Belafonte addresses SNCC’s 50th Anniversary celebration at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina.Civil rights pioneers: SNCC celebrates it’s 50th anniversary By Carl Davidson / The Rag Blog / April 28, 2010 [This article was written by Carl Davidson, incorporating … Continue reading
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Tagged African-American, Black Power, Carl Davidson, Civil Rights, New Left, Sixties, SNCC
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Dick J. Reavis : SDS and the Great Divide
Image from Students for a Democratic Society: A Graphic History.Today’s Red Book and the demise of SDS Nobody present had repudiated Leftism, but everyone seemed to have reached a consensus that the heedlessness of youth had been our common flaw. … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Books, Civil Rights Movement, Military Draft, Peace Movement, Progressive Labor Party, SDS, Sixties, SNCC, SSOC, The Left, The Rag Blog, Vietnam
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Si Kahn : 44 years of music and social justice
Activist, musician, and executive director of Grassroots Leadership: four decades in the struggle. By Bob Libal | The Rag Blog | July 28, 2009 I read in the paper, I watched on the show They said that it happened a … Continue reading
BOOKS / Bob Zellner’s ‘The Wrong Side of Murder Creek’
If you want a taste of what life on the front lines was like in the Southern civil rights movement, you have to read this book. By Jo Freeman [The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the … Continue reading
Frank Cieciorka’s Self-Inscribed Eulogy
Frank CieciorkaIn Memoriam: Frank CieciorkaBy Bruce Anderson / December 3, 2008 Frank Cieciorka died [at the end of November 2008] at his home in Alderpoint, Southern Humboldt County. A modest, soft-spoken man whose passing will sadden everyone who knew him, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alternative Media, Art, Artists, Black Power, Civil Rights Movement, Deaths, SNCC, Underground Press
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Legendary Artist of the New Left : Frank Cieciorka Dead at 69
Iconic image of the New Left: Woodcut by Frank Cieciorka. My year in Mississippi was certainly one the most profound experiences in my life and helped shape my political consciousness to this day. I’m saddened that this country hasn’t done … Continue reading
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Tagged Alternative Media, Art, Artists, Black Power, Civil Rights Movement, Deaths, Graphics, New Left, Political Activists, Sixties, SNCC, Underground Press
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Ernest McMillan and Stoney Burns : Dallas 60s Activists Revisited
The Rag Blog was inspired by an underground newspaper we published in the 1960s in Austin. We called it The Rag. When Carol Neiman and I were editing The Rag — and many more whose bylines you see here from … Continue reading
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Tagged Alternative Media, Anne Lewis, Black Liberation Movement, Black Power, Counterculture, Dallas, New Left, Sixties, SNCC, Texas, Texas History, The Rag, The Rag Blog, Underground Press
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