Title Our sixties : an activist's history / Paul Lauter

Published Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2020 ©2020

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Description 1 online resource (x, 287 pages) Contents The Movement and Me; Among Friends in Philly; Mississippi Summer -- A Quaker Vacation; Professing at Smith and Selma; Return to Mississippi (Goddam); The Draft -- From Protest to Resistance?; Dreaming of a Freedom School in DC (For Bob Silvers); Resisting; A New University?; A Working-Class Movement of GIs; A Man in the Women's Movement; Where We Went and What We Did (and Did Not) Learn There; Authority and Our Discontents; Appendix A: A Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority; Appendix B: Syllabus for a Course on the Sixties Summary Today, some fifty years after, we celebrate - or excoriate - "the Sixties." Using his wide-ranging experience as an activist and writer, Paul Lauter examines the values, the exploits, the victories, the implications, and sometimes the failings, of the "Movement" of that conflicted time. In Our Sixties, Lauter writes about movement activities from the perspective of a full-time participant: 1964 Mississippi freedom schools; Students for a Democratic Society (SDS); the Morgan community school in Washington, DC, which he headed; a variety of antiwar, antidraft actions; the New University Conference, a radical group of faculty and graduate students; The Feminist Press, which he helped found; and the United States Servicemen's Fund, an organization supporting antiwar GIs. He got fired, got busted, got published, and even got tenure. He honed his skills writing for the New York Review of Books among other magazines. As a teacher he created innovative courses ranging from "Revolutionary Literature" and "Contesting the Canon" to "The Sixties in Fiction, Poetry, and Film." He led the development of the groundbreaking Heath Anthology of American Literature and remains its general editor. Lauter's book offers both a retrospective look at the social justice struggles of the Sixties and an account of how his participation in these struggles has shaped his life. Social history as well as personal chronicle, this account is for those who recall that turbulent decade as well as for those who seek to better understand its impact on American politics and society in our current era Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-267) and index Notes Description based on online resource, title from digital title page (viewed on March 11, 2021) Subject Lauter, Paul. Political activists -- United States -- Biography College teachers -- United States -- Biography Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century Protest movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century Social & cultural history. Memoirs. HISTORY / United States / 20th Century Civil rights movements College teachers Political activists Politics and government Protest movements Social conditions SUBJECT United States -- Social conditions -- 1960-1980. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140520 United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140467 United States -- History -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140302 Subject United States Genre/Form Biographies History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781787449183 1787449181

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