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MARTIN J. MURRAY / REMEMBRANCE / Larry Caroline disarmed critics without demeaning them
By Martin J. Murray / The Rag Blog / December 4, 2025 I knew Larry Caroline for only a few short years in Austin. It was a memorable experience. My first recollection of Larry was at the Capitol Building around … Continue reading
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Tagged 1967, Frank Erwin, Free Speech, John Silber, Larry Caroline, Martin J. Murray, Sixties, Trudy Stern, University of Texas at Austin
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THORNE DREYER / JOURNALISM / Central to the new Rag’s voice is to retain the levity of the original
By Thorne Dreyer / The Rag Blog / December 1, 2025 Since editors Ava Hosseini and Kira Small — with the help of managing editor Grant Lindberg — started their seemingly modest endeavor to resurrect the underground newspaper, The Rag, that … Continue reading
ROBERT COTTRELL / BOOKS / A Trip Through the Long Movement
A Review of Thorne Dreyer’s new book, ‘Notes From the Underground’ By Robert Cottrell / The Rag Blog / April 9, 2025 Notes From the Underground: 77 Articles That Bring the Past to Life, the second collection of Thorne Dreyer’s … Continue reading
MARY MANTLE | REMEMBRANCE | Early Austin activist has died: Tom Mantle was a founder of ‘The Rag’ in 1966
By Mary Mantle | The Rag Blog | August 28, 2024 When I was a 17-year-old girl in Corpus Christi, Texas, then a small city at the bottom of America, Naval cadets came for ROTC training at the Naval Air … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin History, Mary Mantle, Obituary, Peace Movement, Rag Bloggers, Remembrance, Sixties, The Rag, Tom Mantle
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RICHARD CROXDALE | REMEMBRANCE | Doyle Niemann
Photo by Alan Pogue | The Rag Blog. By Richard Croxdale | The Rag Blog | June 2, 2024 [Originally posted May 28, 2024, in the People’s History in Texas Substack and cross-posted to The Rag Blog.] Doyle Niemann passed … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin History, Doyle Niemann, Obituaries, Rag Bloggers, Remembrance, Richard Croxdale, SDS, Sixties
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JONAH RASKIN | STUDENT PROTEST | Columbia protests now and in 1968
Demonstration on University of Texas campus, April 27, 2024. Creative Commons image. By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | May 3, 2024 This article was originally published at CounterPunch and was cross-posted to The Rag Blog by the author. … Continue reading
JONAH RASKIN | BOOKS | ‘Material Wealth : Mining the Personal Archive of Allen Ginsberg’
By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | December 27, 2023 [Compiled and annotated by Pat Thomas; PowerHouse Books; 256 pages.] Pat Thomas has written and published colorful books about the Black Panthers — the defiant organization that rocked the … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Ginsberg, American Poets, Books, Jonah Raskin, Material Wealth, Pat Thomas, Poets, Sixties
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LESLIE CUNNINGHAM | CIVIL RIGHTS | The March on Washington: Now 60 Years Later
Now it’s the 60th anniversary. Ten years ago (see my article below) I was marking a lot of half century points in my life; the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and momentous events of the months following it … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Black History, Civil Rights, Leslie Cunningham, March on Washington, Martin Luther King, Rag Bloggers, Sixties
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JIM SIMONS | A PASSING | Greg Olds and the Gang of Six: An Abiding Memory
By Jim Simons | The Rag Blog | August 25, 2023 AUSTIN — A dear friend passed in June at 86. Greg Olds was a quiet, thoughtful person. Even though he was very sick, he assured us he was fine. No … Continue reading
CLIFF WILKIE | MEMOIR | In a little cafe just the other side of the border
It all happened in Ciudad Acuna, Mexico, on March 30, 1969. By Cliff Wilkie | The Rag Blog | April 30, 2023 It was just like in the Marty Robbins song, “in a little cafe just the other side of … Continue reading
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Tagged Chicano Movement, Chicano Rights, Cliff Wilkie, La Raza Unida, Memoir, Mexican Border, Rag Bloggers, Sixties, University of Texas
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JONAH RASKIN | THE SIXTIES | Avedon at the Met: the Chicago Seven and the Sixties
‘I wanted to see if I could reinvent what a group photo is,’ Avedon observed. By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | March 8, 2023 Looking at Richard Avedon’s black-and-white photos of the Chicago Seven which peered out at … Continue reading
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Tagged Chicago 7, Chicago 8, Dave Dellinger, Jerry Rubin, John Froines, Jonah Raskin, Lee Weiner, Photography, Rag Bloggers, Rennie Davis, Richard Avedon, Sixties, Sixties Radicals, Tom Hayden
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