Bibliography


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    1968: The Year that Shaped a Generation
Examines the turbulent political and social landscapes of 1968 by combining archival footage with interviews of key witnesses involved in the year's most pivotal events, including Jesse Jackson, Tom Hayden, Barbara Ehrenreich, Carlos Fuentes, Patrick Buchanan, and Walter Cronkite.
Publisher: Princeton, NJ, Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2003.
    Abbie Hoffman, American Rebel
Author: Jezer, Marty. Publisher: New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press, 1992.
    American Radicalism Collection
This site contains images of 129 pamphlets, documents, and newsletters produced by or relevant to radical movements. Groups and issues represented by one to 30 documents include birth control; the Black Panthers; the Hollywood Ten; the Ku Klux Klan; and Students for a Democratic Society.
Publisher: East Lansing, MI, Michigan State University Libraries, 2001.
    Berkeley at War, the 1960s
Author: Rorabaugh, W. J. Publisher: New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 1989.
    Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America
Born Stokely Carmichael on June 29, 1941, in Port of Spain, Trinidad, he later emigrated to the United States. In 1960, Carmichael formed the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. In 1967, Carmichael became honorary prime minister of the militant Black Panther Party. He called for unity among the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, NAACP, and Nation of Islam so they could work together in their struggle for civil rights and equality.
Author: Charmichael, Stokely. Publisher: New York, NY, Random House, 1967.
    Democracy is in the Streets: From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago
This book, by a former member of Students for a Democratic Society, focuses on the intellectual history of the SDS movement, and provides good coverage of the early years.
Author: Miller, Jim. Publisher: New York, NY, Simon and Schuster, 1988, c1987.
    Do It; Scenarios of the Revolution
In 1968, student anti-war activists, Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman co-founded the Youth International Party. They called themselves Yippies. Their political motives were anti-establishment. When asked about their political agendas, they passed out blank sheets of paper. But the main tenet of their formation was to mobilize a freak-out at the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention, they named The Festival of Life.
Author: Rubin, Jerry. Publisher: New York, NY, Simon and Schuster [1970], 1970.
    Free Speech Movement Digital Archive
The Free Speech Movement (FSM) Digital Archives document the role of Mario Savio and other participants in the Free Speech Movement (University of California, Berkeley, September-December 1964), as well as its origins in political protest and civil rights movements and its legacy of political activism and educational reform that can be traced throughout the country and the world down to the present. Primary documents include transcriptions of legal defense documents, leaflets passed out by members of the movement, letters from administrators and faculty members regarding the movement and student unrest, and oral histories. Also included is a detailed bibliography, a chronology of key events within its early history, and audio clips of faculty and academic senate debates, student protests, and discussions that were recorded during this period.
Publisher: Berkeley, CA, The Regents of the University of California, 199x -.
    From sit-ins to SNCC : the student civil rights movement in the 1960s
The new movement: the student sit-ins in 1960 / Iwan Morgan -- dtAnother side of the sit-ins: nonviolent direct action, the courts, and the constitution / John Kirk -- "Complicated hospitality": the impact of the sit-ins on the ideology of Southern segregationists / George Lewis -- Breaching the wall of resistance: white southern reactions to the sits-ins / Clive Webb -- SNCCs: not one committee, but several / Peter Ling -- SNCC's stories at the barricades / Sharon Monteith -- From beloved community to imagined community: SNCC's intellectual transformation / Joe Street -- The sit-ins, SNCC, and cold war patriotism / Simon Hall -- From Greensboro to Notting Hill: the sit-ins in England / Stephen Tuck -- Epilogue: still running for freedom: Barack Obama and the legacy of the civil rights movement / Steven F. lawson.
Author: Morgan, Iwan . Publisher: Gainesville, Fla., University Press of Florida, 2012.
    From Yale to Jail: The Life Story of a Moral Dissenter
Dellinger was one of the Chicago Seven who went on trial for disrupting the 1968 Democratic Convention.
Author: Dellinger, David T.. Publisher: New York, NY, Pantheon Books, 1993.
    I Lived Inside the Campus Revolution
Memoirs of an FBI informer in the UCLA chapter of SDS.
Author: Divale, William T.. Publisher: New York, Cowles Book Co., 1970.
    May 4 Collection
This site is designed to serve as a memorial to the four students killed at Kent State University on May 4, 1970, by National Guardsmen. Visitors will find 93 transcripts of oral history interviews taken at May 4th commemorations in 1990, 1995, and 2000. The oral histories, ranging from two and 35 minutes, are part of a larger collection. The site also provides a chronology of events, a bibliography dedicated to May 4th events, and links to related websites.
Publisher: Kent, OH, Kent State University Library, Department of Special Collections & Archives, 199x -.
    Report of the President's Commission on Campus Unrest
Author: United States. President's Commission on Campus Unrest. Publisher: New York, NY, Commerce Clearing House, 1970.
    Reunion: A Memoir
Discusses activities in the 1960s and early 1970s as a leader of the Students for a Democratic Society, civil rights and anti-war activist, and his later career in California politics.
Author: Hayden, Tom. Publisher: New York , NY, Random House, 1988.
    Roots of Radicalism: Jews, Christians, and the Left
Author: Rothman, Stanley and Robert Lichter. Publisher: New Brunswick, NJ, Transaction Publishers, 1996.
    Sixties Project & Viet Nam Generation, Inc.
A website created for the study of the history and popular culture of the United States during the 1960s. Features include a Sixties listserv, personal narratives, book reviews, poetry published in Viet Nam Generation, exhibits (e.g. Sixties Buttons), and links to other online resources (primary documents, bibliographies, syllabi, annotated descriptions of films about the 1960s and the Viet Nam War, and more).
Author: Tal, Kalí. Publisher: Tucson, AZ : [Charlottesville, Va.], Institute of Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia--Charlottesville, 1995 -.
    The ABC-CLIO Companion to the 1960s Counterculture in America
This subject dictionary covers major and minor individuals, political events, music, drugs, and other topics relevant to the era.
Author: Hamilton, Neil A.. Publisher: Santa Barbara, CA, ABC-CLIO, 1997.
    The Beginning: Berkeley, 1964
Narrative account of the Free Speech Movement’s origin. Heirich was a grad student at Berkeley in 1964. Based on the author's thesis, University of California.
Author: Heirich, Max. Publisher: New York, NY, Columbia University Press, 1971.
    The Berkeley Student Revolt: Facts and Interpretations
A collection of essays examining Free Speech Movement
Author: Lipset, Seymour Martin and Sheldon S. Wolin, eds.. Publisher: Garden City, NY, Anchor Books, 1965.
    The Columbia Guide to America in the 1960s
Contents: The American sixties: a brief history. John Kennedy and the promise of leadership. The Civil Rights revolution. The Great Society. The Vietnam War. Polarization. Sixties culture. New directions. Conclusion. Debating the sixties. The sixties A to Z. Short topical essays. Special sections. Chronology. Annotated bibliography.
Author: Farber, David and Beth Bailey. Publisher: New York, NY, Columbia University Press, 2001.
    The New Left in America: Reform to Revolution, 1956-1970
This historical analytical look at the New Left includes its beginnings through the break up of the SDS.
Author: Bacciocco, Edward J.. Publisher: Stanford, CA, Hoover Institution Press, 1974.
    Trial of The Chicago Seven
One of the Famous American Trials sites created by Douglas Linder of the University of Missouri, Kansas City, School of Law, this site explores the 1969–1970 trial of the Chicago Seven, a group of radicals accused of conspiring to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The site contains a 1500-word account of the trial, biographies, a chronology of the lives of those involved in the trial, and audio clips of defendants, prosecutors, and witnesses discussing various aspects of the riots and the trial. Also included is the full-text versions of the indictment against the Chicago Seven, the trial manuscript, the contempt of court specifications against two of the defendants, and the appellate decision that overturned the contempt convictions and the convictions for intent to incite a riot. Additionally, there are 16 images of the riots and key figures and 14 quotations. A bibliography of 13 websites and 15 scholarly works leads to other sources for studying the Chicago Seven’s trial and their lives as radical activists.
Publisher: Kansas City, University of Missouri-Kansas City, School of Law, 199x.
    Underground
The film introduces each member of the Weathermen Underground Organization in a group discussion/interview made on May 1st, 1975 in a secret location. The era of the 60s and 70s is vividly bought to life by interweaving the stories of the "Weathermen's" personal political development with the significant events and personalities of the two decades. With: Billy Ayers, Kathy Boudin, Bernardine Dohrn, Jeff Jones, Cathy Wilkerson.
Publisher: [S.I.], MPI Home Video, 1974.
    Underground Newspaper Collection
The Underground Newspaper Collection is a collection of over 700 titles published in the 1960s-1970s. The collection is available in microfilm format on the second floor of the Richter Library. Titles are cataloged individually in IBISWeb and include "Ain't I a Woman," "Berkeley Barb," "Yellow dog," "The Black Panther," "The Great speckled bird," "Haight Ashbury tribune," "The Marijuana review," "Strawberry fields," (Miami, Fla.) and many others.
Publisher: Wooster, OH, Bell & Howell Co.,, 196x-.
    Weather Underground Organization (Weatherman)
The Chicago Office of the FBI prepared a summary in 1976 discussing the main activities of the Weather Underground Organization, also known as Weatherman. This group described itself as a revolutionary organization of communist men and women. The FBI's analysis of its motivations, beliefs, and international travels are outlined in this summary. 420p. In PDF format.
Publisher: Washington, DC, Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, 200x.





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