Tag Archives: The 1960s

FORA-TV: Peter Coyote- ‘Sleeping Where I Fall: Where The Counter-Culture Prevails’

Source:FORA-TV– Hollywood actor, political activist, and lifelong Hippie Peter Coyote, talking about the Counter Culture in 2009. “Actor and activist Peter Coyote describes important ways in which the 1960’s counterculture succeeded. Despite the movement’s failed political agendas, Coyote explains how … Continue reading

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Daniel J.B. Mitchell: ‘Campus Unrest at UCLA in The Late 1960s’

Source:Daniel J.B. Mitchell– UCLA Professor Angela Davis in the 1960s. “These news clips show the inauguration of Chancellor Charles Young in 1969 despite concerns about student demonstrations. Not long after his inauguration, the chancellor was confronted with the Angela Davis … Continue reading

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Reason Magazine: Nick Gillespie: ‘Everything’s Awesome & Camille Paglia is Unhappy!’

You can also see this post at Real Life Journal, on Blogger. “Growing up as “a gender nonconforming entity” during Eisenhower’s America wasn’t easy for cultural critic and best-selling author Camille Paglia. Her adolescence in small-town, upstate New York was marked … Continue reading

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Jayne Mansfield: ‘Sex Symbol, Playmate, Actress- Interview’

“Jayne Mansfield (born Vera Jayne Palmer; April 19, 1933 — June 29, 1967) was an American actress in film, theatre, and television, a nightclub entertainer, a singer, and one of the early Playboy Playmates.” From Jayne Mansfield I think part … Continue reading

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Democracy Journal: Rich Yeselson: What New Left History Gave Us

Source:Democracy Journal For someone whose really interested in liberalism instead of socialism, than I suggest you read about John F. Kennedy and Wendell Willkie. Because back in the early 1960s and really through that decade even with the emergence of … Continue reading

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Democracy Journal: Robin Marie Averbeck- ‘The History of American Liberalism’

“Rich Yeselson’s essay “What New Left History Gave Us” [Issue #35] is not merely about what New Left historiography did, but what contemporary historians of the liberalism birthed by the New Deal—historians like myself—are currently doing. According to Yeselson, we … Continue reading

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Al Jazeera: Inside USA- ‘Angela Davis on The Prison Industrial Complex’

Source:Al Jazeera– Professor Angela Davis on Inside USA. “Put on the FBI’s ‘Most Wanted’ list when she was just 26, Angela Davis became an enduring symbol of 1970’s Black Power. She joins Inside USA to discuss incarceration in the land … Continue reading

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CNN Spotlight: Charles Manson (2014)

Source:CNN– Jeff Gunn is one of the best biographers of Charles Manson. “CNN revisits the vicious, horrific killings by Charles Manson’s followers, 45 years later. CNN Special Report – Face of Evil: The Charles Manson Murders. Tuesday, August 18, 2015.” … Continue reading

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CNN: Angela Davis On Buchanan/Braden (1984)

Source:CNN– New-Left Communist activist on CNN’s Buchanan/Braden in 1984. “Angela Davis on Buchanan/Braden. Strange debate circa 1984.” Source:Mike Gardner Good to hear the so-called Liberal or Progressive on this show, (which of course would’ve been Tom Braden. If you were … Continue reading

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FORA-TV: Brian Doherty- ‘1960s Counterculture and Libertarianism’

Source:FORA-TV– Reason Magazine editor Brian Doherty, at Cody’s Books in Berkeley, California talking about his book. “Reason Magazine Senior Editor Brian Doherty discusses the eccentric founders of the Innovator, a counterculture libertarian zine from the 1960’s. Brian Doherty considers “Radicals … Continue reading

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