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| Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Karen Manners Smith; Tim Koster |
| ISBN: | 9780131840775 0131840770 |
| OCLC Number: | 86117451 |
| Description: | xx, 442 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Vietnam. Blackhawk 54 (Episodes in the life of a U.S. helicopter pilot) / Wayne "Crash" Coe -- Letters home (A draftee writes to his family from Vietnam) / Paul Thomas Coe -- The G.I.s called us donut dollies (A Red Cross volunteer in Vietnam) / Leah O'Leary -- United States blues (The draft lottery and an unlucky birthday) / Tim Koster -- A life in flight (Escaping post-war Vietnam) / Huỳnh Quang Ngọc -- Struggles for social justice. Mama told me not to go (Working with SNCC in Mississippi, Freedom Summer 1964) / Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons -- Deep in the heart (Growing up black in the Jim Crow South ) / Raymond Hubbard -- Not my mother's path (A historian traces her journey to women's liberation / Sara M. Evans -- Students of Stonewall (Encountering the militant gay liberation movement) / Toby Mariotta -- Sisterhood is possible (The life of a feminist Latina lesbian) / Yolanda Retter -- Something in the wind (Spiritual renewal in the American Indian movement) / Johnny Flynn -- Pathways. Hope House (Volunteer tutoring with Upward Bound, 1965-1966) / R. Thomas Collins, Jr. -- The Peace Corps: Kenya, 1968-72 (Teaching school in Africa) / John H. Manners -- Opening the doors of perception (Psychedelics and research in the sixties) / James Fadiman -- Back to the land (A search for simplicity and spiritual health) / Steve Diamond -- The process (Five years in a new age religious cult) / Karen Manners Smith -- Conservative currents. Born on the fourth of July (The making of a conservative) / John M. Werlich -- Libertarian awakening (Campus conservative movements and the 1964 "Goldwater for President" campaign) / Robert W. Poole, Jr. -- It ain't me, Babe: Working for Richard Nixon (An insider's view of Richard Nixon's 1968 Republican Presidential Campaign) / Ron McCoy -- War on drugs, 1971-1978: A view from the trenches (Undercover in the DEA) / Gerald J.Scott -- Landmark events. Fire in the streets (Reporting on the Cleveland Riots, July 1966) / Pat Royse -- Chicago '68 (Innocence and violence at the Democratic convention) / Tara Collins Gordon -- Woodstock nation (Remembering three days of peace and music, 1969) / Sheila Lennon -- Ordinary lives: Kent State, May 4, 1970 (Two students recall the shootings) / Carole Barbato and Laura Davis -- Speaking out. Sit down! Sit down! (The free speech movement at the University of California at Berkeley) / Jackie Goldberg -- Standing with César (Women in the United Farm Workers movement) / Maria and Antonia Saludado with Kent Kirkton -- Somebody's got to do it (Anti-nuclear activism and civil disobediance) / Samuel Lovejoy. |
| Responsibility: | Karen Manners Smith, Tim Koster. |
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