Television and the Black Revolution
Black Power and the Media
This is the text of a speech given by Lou Potter at the Spring Television Symposium at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Potter was the program editor at <em>Black Journal. </em>The speech offers his thoughts on the influences of the "black revolution" and "youth revolution" on U.S. media
Lou Potter
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
April 8, 1969
mimeograph
Recycle
Environmentalism
An early flyer promoting recycling in Berkeley, California. Prepared by Tom Davis and Tom Regan for the Co-op Recycling Center and distributed by the Consumer Protection Committee of the Consumers Cooperative of Berkeley, Inc.
Tom Davis and Tom Regan
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
May, 1970
leaflet
MERIP Reports, October 1971, vol. 1, no. 3
Middle East
MERIP, the Middle East Research and Information Project was established in 1971 to "educate and inform the public about contemporary Middle East affairs." This issue contains articles on Israeli Black Panthers, Arab and North African Jews, discrimination in Israel, as well as a book review and resource list.
MERIP
Roz Payne
October 1971
mimeograph
Center for Participation Education Catalogue, Spring 1970
NewLeft/Student Movement
The Center for Participation in Education (CPE) was a university supported experimental college at the University of California-Berkeley aimed at empowering students to devise innovative classes that focused on pressing contemporary issues. The CPE was a response to growing activism and pressure for reform on campus. CPE pioneered courses in Black Studies, Latin American and Latino Studies, Native American Studies, Women's Studies, Environmental Studies, etc. Founded in 1967 from a broader administrative mandate to the Board of Educational Development at UC-Berkeley to initiate and approve experimental courses “for which neither departmental or college support is appropriate or feasible,” by 1969, administrative support had been fatally curtailed.
This catalogue from the Spring of 1970 illustrates the dire straights the program found itself in and lists the classes available that term.
Center for Participant Education
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
1969
catalogue
Center for Participation Education Catalogue, Winter 1969
Student Movement
The Center for Participation in Education (CPE) was a university supported experimental college at the University of California-Berkeley aimed at empowering students to devise innovative classes that focused on pressing contemporary issues. The CPE was a response to growing activism and pressure for reform on campus. CPE pioneered courses in Black Studies, Latin American and Latino Studies, Native American Studies, Women's Studies, Environmental Studies, etc. Founded in 1967 from a broader administrative mandate to the Board of Educational Development at UC-Berkeley to initiate and approve experimental courses “for which neither departmental or college support is appropriate or feasible,” by 1969, administrative support had been fatally curtailed.
This catalogue lists the classes available in the winter of 1969.
Center for Participant Learning
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
1969
catalogue
Center for Participation Education Catalogue, Fall 1969
Student Movement
The Center for Participation in Education (CPE) was a university supported experimental college at the University of California-Berkeley aimed at empowering students to devise innovative classes that focused on pressing contemporary issues. The CPE was a response to growing activism and pressure for reform on campus. CPE pioneered courses in Black Studies, Latin American and Latino Studies, Native American Studies, Women's Studies, Environmental Studies, etc. Founded in 1967 from a broader administrative mandate to the Board of Educational Development at UC-Berkeley to initiate and approve experimental courses “for which neither departmental or college support is appropriate or feasible,” by 1969, administrative support had been fatally curtailed.
This catalogue lists the classes available in the fall of 1969.
Center for Participant Education
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
1969
catalogue
Cleaver Course Position Paper
Black Power
The University of California-Berkeley was one of the key sites of 1960s-era campus activism. During the early and mid-1960s, Cal students participated in the southern civil rights struggle and protested the House UnAmerican Activities Committee. In 1964, a conflict near Sather Gate sparked the Free Speech Movement. The Students for a Democratic Society were strong on campus and led student activists into the anti-Vietnam war era. During the late-1960s and early-1970s, UC-Berkeley played a pivotal role in the rise of the Black Studies and Third World Student movements.
In 1966, African Americans made up a mere 1% of the student population at the University of California-Berkeley. At the time, the Afro-American Student Union (AASU) was the lone black student political group on campus. On October 29, 1966, SDS sponsored a conference at the Greek Theater, titled, “Black Power and It’s Challenges,” which was attended by an estimated 12,000 overwhelmingly white students and featured keynote speakers, Ron Karenga (US Organization), James Bevel (Southern Christian Leadership Conference) and Stokely Carmichael (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee), who called UC-Berkeley the “white intellectual ghetto of the West.” AASU opposed the conference, calling it “farcical,” “insidious” and “detestable.”
By 1968, the number of African American students on campus began to rise. Early that year, a coalition of black student activists and local community members demanded the creation of a Black Studies Department. In a March, 1968 issue of the Daily Californian, the group wrote, “We demand a program of ‘BLACK STUDIES,’ a program that will be of and for black people. We demand to be educated realistically and that no form of education which attempts to lie to us, or otherwise mis-educate us will be accepted.” In response Chancellor Roger Heyns promised the establishment of a new department by the Fall of 1969. In the meantime, African American students worked with the College of Letters and Sciences to offer a selection of courses on the “Black Experience” during the 1968 school year, including a course titled, “Social Analysis 139X: Dehumanization and Regeneration of the American Social Order,” which was co-organized by four university faculty, but was to be guest taught by controversial Black Panther Minister of Information, Eldridge Cleaver. The 10-lecture class was sponsored by the Center for Participation in Education (CPE), a university supported effort to empower students to help devise classes that focused on pressing contemporary issues. Yet, as students began to enroll in the course, conservative Governor, Ronald Reagan, and state legislators pressured the Board of Regents to pass a new rule stating that classes could only include one guest lecture per semester, an obvious ploy to severely limit Cleaver’s platform on campus. The move set off a new controversy over academic freedom on campus and helped spur the mobilization of the Third World Liberation Front, a coalition of black students, Latin American students, Asian American students and Mexican American students that organized the longest student strikes in U.S. history. Ultimately, Cleaver gave six lectures on campus in 1968.
This document puts forth a defense of the "Cleaver Course," as it became known on campus.
Center for Participant Education
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
1968
position paper
Weatherman FBI Wanted Poster
New Left
This is the FBI Wanted poster for members of the Weather Underground.
FBI
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
1970
leaflet
The TASC Trip (Washington's Treatment Alternatives to Street Crime)
Drug Addiction
This comic provides a critique of Methadone treatment for heroine addiction.
Drug Research Project
Roz Payne
undated
newsprint
broadside
Whose Alternative Media?
Alternative Media
A flyer for an alternative media conference in New York
a coalition of left media groups, including American Documentary Films, Blue Bus, Liberation News Service, New York Media Project, Newsreel, Committee to Defend the Panther 21, Paradigm Records, Rat Subterranean News, The Guardian and Theater of Southpaws
Roz Payne
undated
mimeograph
leaflet
Committee to Defend the Panther 21
Black Panther Party
This document discusses the role of the media in the trial of the Panther 21 for a series of bombings in New York City. The Black Panther members were acquitted on May 12, 1971 of all 156 charges.
Black Panther Party
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
ca. 1970
mimeograph
leaflet
The Role of the Black Panther Party - Revisited
Black Panther Party
This essay attempts to push back against media attacks on the Black Panther Party.
Black Panther Party
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
February 28, 1970
mimeograph
leaflet
To the People of the Salmon River Mountains from the People of Black Bear Ranch
Environmentalism
A letter opposing the clear-cut logging of land in Idaho by a California commune, the Black Bear Ranch. According to the historian Timothy Miller, the community bought the property for $22,500 using money from a variety of sources including from supporters in the entertainment industry, as well as "one large unexpected angelic gift" and the "proceeds from a major LSD deal." The commune had a variety of contacts with radical groups.
the People of Black Bear Ranch
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
ca. late-1960s or early-1970s
mimeograph
leaflet
Bobby Seale, Ericka Huggins Are On Trial in New Haven, Conn.
Black Panther Party
This leaflet details the plight of Black Panther Party leaders, Bobby Seale and Ericka Huggins, who were on trial in 1970 for criminal conspiracy to commit the 1969 murder of 19-year old Alex Rackley, a member of the Black Panthers suspected of being an FBI informant. The case became a cause celebré on the political left. In the end, the jury was unable to reach a verdict, deadlocked 11 to 1 for Seale's acquittal and 10 to 2 for Huggins' acquittal. On May 25, 1971 Judge Harold Mulvey stunned courtroom spectators by dismissing the charges against Huggins and Seale saying, "I find it impossible to believe that an unbiased jury could be selected without superhuman efforts -- efforts which this court, the state and these defendants should not be called upon either to make or to endure."
unknown
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
ca. 1970
mimeograph
leaflet
Radio Free Boston
Women's Liberation
This document details an action against WBCN in Boston by the radical feminist organization, Bread and Roses on International Women's Day.
Off Our Backs
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
undated
mimeograph
leaflet
The Panthers and the Law
Black Panther Party
This document provides an annotated response to a Newsweek article about the Black Panther Party and the law.
New York Media Project
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
1970
mimeograph
leaflet
Put It Down In Black and White
Open Housing Movement
This essay offers a first-hand account of race relations and the open housing campaign in Milwaukee.
John P. Adams, published in Concern Magazine, October 15, 1967
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
October 15, 1967
mimeograph
article
Nothing for the Sake of the Earth
Environmentalism
An early ecology pamphlet.
Earth/Life Defense
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
ca. early-1970s
mimeograph
leaflet
Solidarity Is Not a Sentiment
Anti-Vietnam War Movement
A proposal for a Vietnam - U.S. People's Peace Treaty.
Long March Caucus
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
ca. 1970
mimeograph
leaflet
Rehearsal for the Apocalypse
Environmentalism
An early ecology pamphlet
Earth/Life Defense
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
ca. early-1970s
mimeograph
leaflet
Free Vermont
New Left
This Movement broadside from Burlington, Vermont, touches on a variety of issues related to Movement politics from the early-1970s.
unknown
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
ca. early-1970s
newsprint
broadside
Yippie Schedule and Plan for 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention
New Left
This document describes Yippie plans for the upcoming protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
Youth International Party (Yippie) - reprinted from The
Rag
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
1968
mimeograph
leaflet
A Man's World & Welcome To It
Women's Liberation
This article, by Kae Halonen, provides a Marxist feminist analysis of her upbringing, women's history, the job market, property relations and factory workers.
Radical Education Project, Detroit, Michigan
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
mimeograph
article
What is the GAA?
Gay Liberation
This leaflet provides a basic overview of the structure and politics of the Gay Activists Alliance.
Gay Activists Alliance
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
ca. 1969 or early-1970s
leaflet
R. Cobb Cartoon
Police Brutality
This cartoon features a middle-aged white male stating, "I've lived in this city for over 40 years... and never once have I been brutalized by the police." The cartoon, suggests the gulf between black and white experiences with police, which undergirds the law and order politics of the 1970s.
R. Cobb
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
ca. 1970s
cartoon
Students of Norwalk - Beautify America - Get a Haircut
Counterculture
One of the key themes of the 1960s was generational tension. Youth culture styles and fashion were a consistent target from various authorities, from parents, to media commentators, to law enforcement and school officials. Long hair on men became a particular point of contention. To some adults, long hair symbolized opposition to the War in Vietnam, or an acceptance of countercultural values, like drug use, premarital sex, and resistance to traditional authority. During the late-1960s, several school attempted to compel young white men to cut their hair. In 1968, for instance, the principle of a New Hampshire Catholic school marched 18 students from class to a local barbershop for a haircut. That same year, school officials at Brien McMahon High School in Norwalk, Connecticut, suspended 53 male students because their hair covered their ears or hung over their collars. They also restricted young women from wearing thigh-high mini-skirts. 18 male students complied, but others resisted, protesting outside the school with signs that read, “”It’s 1968, not 1984,” “Is Hair Unfair?” “Does Society Hang by a Hair?” and “Unconstitutional Harassment.” The ACLU represented four of the students in a court challenge, but lost. The school principle argued that long hair was a major classroom distraction, while the ACLU cited the Magna Carta and U.S. Constitution, claiming the restrictions violated fundamental individual rights and had nothing to do with education. The judge skirted the constitutional issues, justifying his decision by saying it would be unfair to the 18 students who complied with the order if he ruled for the four who refused to comply. In a separate 1970 case in Massachusetts, though, a judge sided with the students, writing, “We see no reason why decency, decorum and conduct require a boy to wear his hair short. Certainly eccentric hair styling is no longer a reliable sign of perverse behavior. We do not believe that mere unattractiveness in the eyes of some parents, teachers, or students, short of uncleanliness, can justify the proscription. Nor, finally, does such compelled conformity to conventional standards of appearance seem a justifiable part of the educational process.”
This slipping from the February 6, 1968, New York Times shows a billboard in Norwalk ridiculing long-haired youth.
New York Times
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
February 6, 1968
article clipping
Che Guevara Cartoon
Third World Liberation
This cartoon depicts the iconic visage of Third World revolutionary, Che Guevara, with a grenade. Inside the grenade is an image of Guevara speaking at the UN in 1964.
unknown
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
ca. mid-1960s
photocopy
Children’s Liberation
Women's Liberation
An extension of the women’s liberation movement, the Summerhill Collective’s leaflet on the organization’s goals points to shifting ideas about parenthood, specifically the relationship between mother and child. Defining the nuclear family as a site of oppression for both parent and child, the Summerhill Collective sought to associate childrearing as a pleasurable and respectable endeavor.
Summerhill Collective
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
ca. 1972
mimeograph
article
Basic Ecology Bibliography
Environmentalism
This leaflet is a selection of readings available for purchasing through the mail by the Ecology Center Bookstore in Berkeley, California. The titles center on the environmental movement and include works such as The Subversive Science, The Affluent Society, and America the Raped.
Ecology Center Bookstore
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
ca. early-1970s
mimeograph
leaflet
ca. 1970s
Smokey the Bear Sutra
Environmentalism
This leaflet satirizes the popular image of Smokey the Bear, created by the Advertising Council in 1944, in a sutra, Buddhist-style text. Addressing the ecological crisis of the late-1960s and 1970s, this leaflet suggests the displacement of individualized responsibility for environmental preservation.
unknown
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
ca. early-1970s
mimeograph
en-US
leaflet
ca. 1960s and 1970s
Free and Voluntary Abortion Is Every Woman’s Right
Women's Liberation
This Chicago Women’s Liberation Union leaflet discusses the accessibility to abortion resources for women with unwanted pregnancy. Citing the physical and legal ramifications stemming from the contemporary abortion laws in the U.S., this leaflet touches upon the themes of sterilization, birth control, and global population increase in the late-1960s and 1970s.
According to the Encyclopedia of Chicago, the Chicago Women’s Liberation Union was formed in 1969. The founding members were Naomi Weisstein, Vivian Rothstein, Heather Booth, and Ruth Surgal. The group's goals under women’s liberation were to halt sexism and unequal opportunity for all women. Under the branch of unequal opportunity was women’s access to healthcare. The CWLU is best known for the pamphlet that was published in 1972 called “Socialist Feminism: A Strategy for the Women’s Movement.” The pamphlet made a national mark and put the CWLU on the map as an agent of change for women’s rights. Many chapters of Women’s Liberation were linked through the work they published, allowing women’s rights to gain influence across the country. One of the Chicago chapter's goals as an organization was to raise consciousness of women’s issues. This leaflet raises consciousness about abortion resources and their accessibility for women with unwanted pregnancies. It was also used as a measure to reject the current U.S. abortion laws and gain support to repeal them. Building on the notion of population increase, the pamphlet illustrates the stance that the CWLU had on the legalization of Abortion and the opposition to the American Medical Association. At the end of the leaflet there is a number provided for the Jane Collective. This was an underground abortion counseling service located in Chicago that ran from 1969 to 1973 and collectively performed approximately 11,000 abortions.
Chicago Women’s Liberation Union
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
ca. late-1960s or early-1970s
mimeograph
leaflet
Do People Pollute?
Women's Liberation
This Chicago Women’s Liberation Union article links post-World War II consumer culture to the politics of motherhood and the social accessibility for women to alternative models of womanhood. Contrasting the wife-mother model of womanhood, this leaflet describes the relationship between consumerism, the environmentalist movement, and gender roles in the 1960s and 1970s.
Chicago Women’s Liberation Union
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
ca. late-1960s or early-1970s
mimeograph
article
Long Live the Victory of Peoples’ War!
This leaflet image cites the Chinese victory over imperial Japan, leading to the Communist Revolution in China. Written in commemoration of Chinese Peoples’ War against Japan in 1945, this leaflet demonstrates the imagined community between U.S. students within the New Left and global Marxist revolutions.
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
en-US
Text
ca. 1960s and 1970s
Seize the Time
Black Power
This leaflet calls for an armed self-defensive revolution in a post-1968 state, citing themes such as discrimination based on age, gender, race, and class. This leaflet also links the experiences of black Americans, particularly in urban spaces, to that of the Vietnamese peoples.
unknown
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
ca. late-1960s or early-1970s
mimeograph
leaflet
Radical Student Movement Leaflet
Women's Liberation and Student Movement
Two pages of an article includes subheadings, “Middle Class Also Affected” and “Radical Movement Not Immune.” Both sections discuss the gendered politics and economics which existed in the radical student movement. This leaflet critiques arguments presented by some radical student organizations on the issue of familial relationships and roles as distracting from the discussion of male chauvinism in the movement.
unknown
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
ca. late-1960s or early-1970s
mimeograph
article
Call for a National Hard Times Conference
Anti-Poverty Movement
This pamphlet advertises the Hard Times Conference, which took place between January 30 and February 1, 1976, at the University of Illinois Circle Campus in Chicago. The conference was organized by the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee, with the support of a number of Weather Underground leaders and sought to challenge political cuts to social welfare programs, protest inflation and advocate for a guaranteed jobs and income program. The conference slogan was “Hard Times are Fighting Times.” This pamphlet discusses the accessibility of social services in urban neighborhoods, the importance of obtaining a living wage, and problems accruing from inflation. According to the Freedom Archive, the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee was “An anti-imperialist group that began as the Prairie Fire Distributing Committee in 1974 to distribute Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism, written by members of the Weather Underground Organization. After its initial publication, groups sprang up around the country to discuss the book. PFOC was formally organized in 1976 and was active in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, and Chicago until the mid-1990s. Their work embraced a broad range of issues: international solidarity with national liberation struggles in Zimbabwe, Namibia, South Africa, Nicaragua and El Salvador; and with the struggles for self-determination of Puerto Rican, African-American, Mexicano, and Native peoples inside U.S. borders; support of political prisoners; opposition to white and male supremacy and support of women’s and gay liberation.”
Hard Times Conference Board
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
1976
color print
pamphlet
The Beat of the People Goes On
New Left
Drawing on events such as the Kent State shootings, Vietnam War, and the assassination of Fred Hampton, this leaflet critiques the militarization of U.S. police, calling for the unification of black men and women to protest police brutality and the contemporary power structure.
unknown
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
ca. early-1970s
mimeograph
leaflet
ca. 1970s
Panther Trial News, No. 4, July 27, 1970
Black Panther Party
This newsletter provides an update on the legal proceedings against Lonnie McLucus and Warren Kimbro for the kidnapping, torture and murder of Alex Rackley, who they believed was an FBI informer. Some claimed the killing was ordered by Bobby Seale. McLucas was convicted and received a 15 year prison sentence. The men were a part of a group that was referred to as the New Haven Nine.
Black Panther Party
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
July 27, 1970
mimeograph
newsletter
Panther Trial News, no. 3, July 19, 1970
Black Panther Party
This newsletter provides an update on the legal proceedings against Lonnie McLucus and Warren Kimbro for the kidnapping, torture and murder of Alex Rackley, who they believed was an FBI informer. Some claimed the killing was ordered by Bobby Seale. McLucas was convicted and received a 15 year prison sentence. The men were a part of a group that was referred to as the New Haven Nine.
Black Panther Party
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
July 19, 1970
mimeograph
newsletter
Panther Trial News, no. 1, June 29, 1970
Black Panther Party
This newsletter provides an update on the legal proceedings against Lonnie McLucus and Warren Kimbro for the kidnapping, torture and murder of Alex Rackley, who they believed was an FBI informer. Some claimed the killing was ordered by Bobby Seale. McLucas was convicted and received a 15 year prison sentence. The men were a part of a group that was referred to as the New Haven Nine.
Black Panther Party
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
June 29, 1970
mimeograph
newsletter
"Current Legal Status of Abortion Laws Throughout the Country"
Women's Liberation
This leaflet provides a basic run-down of the status of abortion laws in the U.S. in 1971.
Nancy Stearns
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
February 2, 1971
mimeograph
leaflet
Abortions in New York City, 1970-71
Women's Liberation
This leaflet provides a brief statistical breakdown of abortions in New York in 1970 and 1971.
Women's Health and Abortion Project
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
ca. 1972
mimeograph
leaflet
The Women’s Abortion Project of NYC Women’s Liberation
Women's Liberation
Based in New York City, New York, this newsletter targeted second-wave feminists serving as resources for women seeking healthy and safe abortions throughout the United States. The Health and Abortion Project sought to provide resources and guidance for women needing abortions. While providing information on the Health and Abortion Project’s goals, this newsletter underlines the significance of contraception, abortion, and reproductive health for the second-wave feminist movement.
The Health and Abortion Project
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
ca. early-1970s
flyer
Sexual Revolution Readings
Women's Liberation
This mimeographed resource contains selected essays and manifestos related to second-wave feminism and reproductive health, with special attention to sexuality, race, class, and gender. Essays included: “Sexuality,” by Roxanne Dunbar; “Masturbation”; “Women-Identified Woman” by the Radicalesbians; and “Abortion or Genocide?” The goal of this resource was to help women raise their consciousness about sexual health, sexuality and contraception.
In the Know, Inc.
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
ca. early-1970
mimeograph
pamphlet
The Politics of Ecology
Environmentalism
This is a reprint of an ecology article, “The Politics of Ecology,” by Barry Weisberg, from the January 1970 issue of Liberation. The article offers an insight into the emerging environmental politics of the early-1970s.
author, Barry Weisberg, published by Liberation
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
January 1970
photocopy
Yippie Valentine's Day Marijuana Mailing
Yippies
In early 1969, the Yippies sent an estimated 30,000 random strangers in New York City a marijuana cigarette (purchased with funds from Jimi Hendrix) and this letter. The letter states that they were doing it to "clear the garbage from the air" and debunk myths about pot's dangers. The stunt made television news, and one news anchor (with joint in hand) called the police on the air. When law enforcement arrived, they confiscated the joint, and told viewers, "Marijuana is a dangerous drug that can drive people insane." Roz Payne participated in this action.
Yippies
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
ca. February 14, 1969
letter
Women and Health Care
Women's Liberation
This article explores a discussion among New York women about women's health, particularly reproductive health issues.
Women's Health & Abortion Project
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
September 1969
mimeograph
leaflet
White Male Genital Love
New Left
This article explores the ways social forms of power are often reproduced within movement organizations, particularly white male power. It also includes a comic about "ego-tripping."
unknown
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
undated
newsprint
article
Where the Action Is
Gay Liberation
This leaflet lists locations in New York where protest action was taking place in the gay liberation movement.
unknown
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
ca. early-1970s
mimeograph
leaflet
Towards a People's Constitution
New Left
This leaflet lists some possible provisions for a "Peoples' Constitution" that emerged from a series of discussions among activists in the Boston-Cambridge area, as well as a national meeting in Philadelphia.
unknown
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
September 28, 1970
mimeograph
leaflet