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Underground Press
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An account of the resource
One of the key characteristics of the various movements of the 1960s-era was the creation of alternative, or "underground," newspapers. These newspapers were not clandestine, though. Quite the opposite. They were important public organizing tools for New Left movements, crucial to disseminating information, educating activists and promoting events. In addition to articles, they also often included comix and other graphics, advertisements and sometimes even personals. This collection contains a range of underground newspapers, some focused on a particular movement, like the women's movement, others offering broader coverage of the many movements taking place at the time.
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newspaper
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Title
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Fag Rag, January 1973
Subject
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Gay Liberation
Description
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Fag Rag was a Boston-based gay liberation newspaper published by a group of writers and activists from 1971 through the early-1980s. This issue includes articles about a guide to bars, baths and books; an interview between a Hustler and customer"; a gay Vietnam veteran; generational differences in the gay liberation movement; homosexuals and welfare; the closet; the first international gay liberation congress in Milan; gay pride week; poetry; Miami Democratic Convention; "cocksucking" as a revolutionary act; police repression; race and homosexuality; gay experience at rest stops; homosexuality in prison; letters to the editor.
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Fag Rag Collective
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Roz Payne
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Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Date
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January 1973
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underground press
1972 Democratic Convention
Anti-War
bars
baths
books
Boston
cocksucking
Florida
gay liberatiom
homosexuality
hustler
international gay liberation congress
Massachusetts
Miami
Milan
police
prison
race
rest stops
sexual revolution
sexuality
the closet
veterans
Vietnam War
welfare
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Small Press Publications
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During the 1960s, numerous radical and independent small presses were created to publish longer essays, manifestos, philosophical tracts, treatises and poetry related to the movements of the New Left. These independent presses filled a niche that mainstream and commercial presses largely ignored. Small press publications were particularly vibrant in the women's liberation movement. While many of these independent publishers of the Sixties were short-lived, others have continued into the present.
Text
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paper
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The Front
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This booklet describes the goals and platform of the Malcolm X United Liberation Front, a Marxist-Leninist black radical organization based in Tallahassee, Florida, and founded and headed by Robert Perkins. The group was in existence from 1969-1976. The Malcolm X United Liberation Front supported the Black Panther Party and remained committed to exposing the racialized caste system in the U.S. and ending sexism in the black community.
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Malcolm X United Liberation Front
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Roz Payne
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Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Subject
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Black Power
Date
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ca. 1969
Format
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booklet
armed self-defense
Black Panther Party
Black Power
Civil Rights
Eldridge Cleaver
Florida
intersectionality
Labor Relations
Malcolm X United Liberation Front
Robert Perkins
Tallahassee
Women's Liberation
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Underground Press
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An account of the resource
One of the key characteristics of the various movements of the 1960s-era was the creation of alternative, or "underground," newspapers. These newspapers were not clandestine, though. Quite the opposite. They were important public organizing tools for New Left movements, crucial to disseminating information, educating activists and promoting events. In addition to articles, they also often included comix and other graphics, advertisements and sometimes even personals. This collection contains a range of underground newspapers, some focused on a particular movement, like the women's movement, others offering broader coverage of the many movements taking place at the time.
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Red Bass Magazine, No. 7
Subject
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Art, Culture and Politics
Description
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Red Bass Magazine was published in Tallahassee, Florida, and provided an art and culture lens of critique on media and politics during there 1980s. The magazine includes essays, interviews, poetry and art. Contributors to this issue include Jean Michel Basquiat, Fr. Daniel Berrigan, Stephen Bradley, Frank Brown, Rick Campbell, Greg Carter, Ramsey Clark, Jayne Cortez, Roque Dalton, Kenneth Falana, Robert Fitchter, Brad Freeman, Mark Hinson, David Kirby, Jim Loser, Jay Murphy, Eugenie Nable, Claudia Perry, Zilphia Rawson, Joseph A. Roache, Paul Rutkovsky, Mary Jane Ryals, Burke Sauls, Vanessa Wilkerson and Ray Wonder, as well as interviews with Maya Angelou and Allen Ginsburg.
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Red Bass Magazine
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Roz Payne
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Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Date
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1984
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magazine
Alan Ginsberg
arts
Brad Freeman
Burke Sauls
civil disobedience
Claudia Perry
David Kirby
Eugenie Nable
Florida
Fr. Daniel Berrigan
Frank Brown
Greg Carter
Jay Murphy
Jayne Cortez
Jean Michel Basquiat
Jim Loser
Joseph A. Roache
Kenneth Falana
Latin America
Mark Hinson
Mary Jane Ryals
Maya Angelou
media
Nicaragua
Paul Rutkovsky
poetry
Ramsey Clark
Ray Wonder
Red Bass Magazine
Rick Campbell
Robert Fitchter
Ronald Reagan
Roque Dalton
Stephen Bradley
Tallahassee
Underground Press
Vanessa Wilkerson
Zilphia Rawson
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Underground Press
Description
An account of the resource
One of the key characteristics of the various movements of the 1960s-era was the creation of alternative, or "underground," newspapers. These newspapers were not clandestine, though. Quite the opposite. They were important public organizing tools for New Left movements, crucial to disseminating information, educating activists and promoting events. In addition to articles, they also often included comix and other graphics, advertisements and sometimes even personals. This collection contains a range of underground newspapers, some focused on a particular movement, like the women's movement, others offering broader coverage of the many movements taking place at the time.
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The Longest Revolution, June 1977, vol. 1, no. 5
Subject
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Women's Liberation
Description
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The Longest Revolution was a “news and views” periodical from a progressive feminist perspective created by The Collective of The Center for Women's Studies and Services, a women’s liberation organization that formed out of San Diego State University’s Women’s Studies Program, but which moved off-campus because of clashes with university administration. Articles in this issue focus on Anais Nin; women and art; battered women; International Women’s Year; gay liberation; rape; Planned Parenthood; marriage; Indian Health Services; sterilization; police; Date County gay rights; disability; pregnancy; National Organization for Women; media discrimination; local arts; a calendar and letters.
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The Collective of The Center for Women's Studies and Services
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Roz Payne
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Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Date
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June 1977
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newspaper
Anais Nin
art
battered women
California
Center for Women's Studies and Services
Dade County
disability
feminism
Florida
gay liberatiom
Indian Health Services
International Women’s Year
Italy
marriage
media
National Organization for Women
NOW
Planned Parenthood
police
pregnancy
rape
revolution
San Diego
San Diego State University
Sterilization
violence
Women's Liberation
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Posters and Graphic Design
Description
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The movements of the Sixties produced a rich history of political posters and other graphic arts. These posters were hung in political offices, bookstores, bedrooms and in public. The posters collected here include designs related to the anti-war movement, Black Power, women’s liberation, the Yippies, counterculture, the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, anti-imperialism, the Cuban Revolution, environmentalism, Bernie Sanders’ elections for Burlington mayor, anti-communism, the labor movement, corporate inequality, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and other topics. Of particular note are a series of posters created by the OSPAAAL, the Organisation in Solidarity with the People of Africa, Asia and Latin America, the main publisher of international solidarity posters in Cuba.
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Roz Payne
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Ten Days to Change the World
Subject
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Yippies/Counterculture
Description
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This poster promoted Yippie protests at the Democratic and Republican National Conventions in Miami Beach, Florida, in 1972, the last time both major parties held their presidential conventions in the same city. Notably, these protests also included a break-away group from the original Yippies, led by Tom Forcade and called the "Zippies," for "Zeitgeist International Party." Contingents at the demonstrations also included the Vietnam Veterans Against the War and a large group of women’s liberation activists.
At the Republican Convention, about 3,000 anti-war activists, many wearing painted death masks and some splattered with red paint, confronted delegates, chanting, cursing, jostling and pounding on cars. Protesters aimed to force well-dressed delegates to walk through a "gauntlet of shame" as they approached the guarded gates of the convention. Protesters yelled, “Murderers, murderers” and "delegates kill!" Some protesters also broke windows along the main thoroughfare in Miami Beach during the protests, resulting in 212 arrests. Black Panther Party leader, Bobby Seale, who had recently been released from four years in jail as a result of his participation in the 1968 demonstrations outside the Democratic Convention in Chicago, participated in the protests and at one point led demonstrators in chanting, “One, two, three, four. We don't want your f---ing war.” Daniel Ellsberg, who was facing criminal prosecution for releasing the Pentagon Papers, spoke to a more subdued crowd of anti-war demonstrators outside the convention center as Nixon was being nominated inside. Vietnam war veteran turned anti-war activist, Ron Kovic, also participated in the protests at the Republican National Convention.
The Democratic Convention also saw a variety of protests, inside the conventional hall and outside of it. Inside, previously excluded political activists clashed with traditional party leaders and activists in sessions that often extended late into the night. Outside, anti-war, black freedom, feminist, gay rights and other activists rallied and demonstrated. Anti-poverty advocates constructed "Resurrection City II," named after "Resurrection City," which had been constructed in Washington, D.C. in 1968 as a part of the Poor People's Campaign. "Gonzo" journalist, Hunter S. Thompson, chronicled the 1972 Democratic Convention in his book, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72.
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unknown
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Roz Payne
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Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Date
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ca. 1972
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poster
1972 Democratic Convention
1972 election
1972 Republican Convention
Anti-War
Black Panther Party
Black Power
Bobby Seale
counterculture
Daniel Ellsberg
electoral politics
feminism
Florida
Gay Liberation
George McGovern
Hunter S. Thompson
Miami Beach
New Left
Poor People's Campaign
Resurrection City
Resurrection City II
Richard Nixon
Ron Kovic
Tom Forcade
Vietnam Veterans Against the War
Vietnam War
Women's Liberation
Yippies
Youth International Party
Zeitgeist International Party
Zippies
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Buttons
Description
An account of the resource
Buttons were one of the most popular and pervasive forms of political messaging during the 1960s, combining brief messaging and memorable graphic designs. Buttons were inexpensive to produce on a mass basis and easy to distribute. They afforded any individual an opportunity to voice their opinions and, potentially, reach a broad audience. As Hunter Oatman-Stanford has written, “From discreet lapel pins to oversized buttons on purses or backpacks, pinbacks invite conversation by declaring potentially controversial viewpoints to complete strangers.” In this way, buttons were (and still are) a particularly democratic form of political propaganda.
As button collector, John Aisthorpe, has put it, buttons offer “a little snapshot of history.” During the 1960s, buttons were vital to the visual identity of a range of movements. “There were many protest groups who put their views on buttons,” Aisthorpe recalls, “from the early ’60s with the Free Speech Movement (FSM) to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and, later, the Veterans for Peace, the Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace Parade Committee, and the Yippies.” The political impact of buttons in the 1960s is hard to gauge, though their popularity suggests some modicum of significance. And, as Aisthorpe has asserted, “It’s hard to say what impact they had, but the text of buttons worn at protests were often used as antiwar chants, like ‘Hell no, we won’t go!’… They must have had some effect.” The buttons of the 1960s have remained some of the most enduring relics from this important past.
This collection includes buttons from a wide array of movements from the Sixties, including the student movement, civil rights and Black Power movements, women's liberation, environmentalism, the anti-nuclear movement, gay liberation, electoral politics, the Chicano movement, the labor movement and the counterculture, with a strong emphasis on the anti-war movement. In addition, a few buttons date from Roz Payne’s activist efforts in the 1970s and 1980s, including the early political campaigns of Vermont politician, Bernie Sanders.
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No More Bullshit
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Electoral Politics
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unknown
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Roz Payne
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Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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1969
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button
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In 1969, at the prompting of feminist leader, Gloria Steinam, author, cultural critic and activist, Norman Mailer, made an outsider bid for mayor of New York City. His campaign ran as a ticket with Jimmy Breslin, the raucous New York Daily News journalist who was seeking to become the President of the New York City Council. At the time, New York was facing a growing list of problems, including rising crime rates, increasing poverty and deindustrialization, middle-class suburban flight, congestion, pollution and political stagnation. In response, Mailer, whose campaign slogans were “No More Bullshit” and “Throw the Rascals In,” set out an outlandishly bold set of initiatives. His primary proposal was the “51st State” plan, a scheme whereby the five boroughs of New York would secede from the rest of the state in a bid to secure more independence, greater political representation, resources and power. Once independent, Mailer envisioned a radically decentralized political order with the city “splintering into townships and neighborhoods, with their own school systems, police departments, housing programs, and governing philosophies." In addition, he advocated a ban on private cars in Manhattan, replacing them with cabs and a monorail system that would circle the island; a citywide free bicycle rental program; and policies that would eliminate pollution, reduce taxes, and establish full autonomy for public schools. According to campaign literature, at the collegiate level, the campaign promoted “vest-pocket campuses built by students in abandoned buildings” that would restore “a sense of personal involvement that is lost in the large university campuses.” In perhaps his most utopian proposal, Mailer urged the creation of “Sweet Sundays,” which would mandate, once a month, that all mechanical transportation stop and elevators close down so that New Yorkers could decompress from their hectic urban lives and avoid breathing exhaust fumes.
Campaign events were often chaotic. At one, Mailer quipped, "The difference between me and the other candidates is that I'm no good and I can prove it." At another, he called his own supporters “spoiled pigs.” After learning that bars would be closed on election day, Jimmy Breslin complained, “I am mortified to have taken part in a process that required bars to be closed.”
Many New Left activists and libertarians supported the Mailer-Breslin ticket. The Black Panther Party also endorsed the duo after they backed the release of Panther leader, Huey Newton. To some, the campaign was a lark, to other a serious challenge to the established order, and to others an outright offense.
In the end, Mailer finished in fourth place during the Democratic mayoral primary, edging out state Assemblyman, Charles B. Rangel, who would go on to be elected to Congress in 1970 and remain in office until 2017. Even in defeat, though, Mailer’s campaign was seen by many leftists and libertarians as an important attempt to move from the realm of ideas into programmatic politics.
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Norman Mailer first gained fame in 1948 with the publication of his now-classic war novel, The Naked and the Dead, which was based in part on his own WWII experiences. In 1955, he was a part of a small group that established The Village Voice, an influential alternative newspaper located in Greenwich Village, which continued publication until 2018. Also an influential essayist, Mailer published “The White Negro” in Dissent in 1957, a controversial analysis of the “hipster” in post-war American culture.
Mailer became a ubiquitous cultural figure in the 1960s. In 1960, he published "Superman Comes to the Supermarket," an essay in Esquire on the rise of John F. Kennedy at the Democratic National Convention. He continued to see JFK as an “existential hero” for a new era. That same year, Mailer was convicted of assault for the stabbing of his wife, Adele, and served three years of probation. Mailer was also one of 29 prominent Americans who co-founded the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, which opposed the hardline anti-Castro stance of U.S. politicians and military leaders during the early-1960s. The group achieved widespread infamy in 1963, when it became public news that Kennedy assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was a member. In 1967, Mailer made a mark with the best-selling political book, Why Are We in Vietnam? and played an ongoing role in the anti-war movement, including signing the 1968 “Writers and Editors War Tax Protest,” a pledge to withhold tax payments to the U.S. government as opposition to the U.S. war in Vietnam. Again that year, Mailer covered the turbulent Democratic and Republican National Conventions, work that he later published as, Miami and the Siege of Chicago (1968). In that book, Mailer portrays American politics cynically as a crass and self-interested exchange of political power. Reflecting back later on the party politics of the 1960s-era, Mailer wrote, "If you played for a team, you did your best to play very well, but there was something obscene… with starting to think there was more moral worth to Michigan than Ohio State." To Mailer, there was little difference between the disgraced Richard Nixon who left the White House after the Watergate scandal and Lyndon Johnson, whose liberal Great Society was derailed by the failed Vietnam war. Along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion, Tom Wolfe and Hunter S. Thompson, Mailer is also seen as a pioneer in what came to be known as the “New Journalism,” a form of creative nonfiction that used some of the style and devices of literary fiction to write fact-based journalism. His most significant work in this vein was Armies of the Night (1968), a nonfiction novel about the October 1967 March on the Pentagon. The book won both the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award. Mailer also wrote books about the Apollo 11 mission to the moon, a response to criticisms of him and other male authors by feminist author, Kate Millett, and an account of the 1974 “Rumble in the Jungle,” the heavyweight championship fight between Muhammad Ali and George Forman in Zaire.
In 1979, Mailer published The Executioner’s Song, for which he won his second Pulitzer Prize. The “true crime” novel focuses on the execution of Utah murderer, Gary Gilmore. His final novel, Harlot’s Ghost, published in 1991, explored the hidden history of the CIA from the end of WWII through the mid-1960s. Mailer, who also wrote drama and screenplays for films, died in 2007.
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Jimmy Breslin was an outspoken journalist and novelist who was known as a tough-talking representative of working-class residents in his hometown, Queens, New York. In 1962, Breslin wrote a best-selling book on the New York Mets baseball team, Can’t Anybody Here Play This Game? In 1963, he was covering southern civil rights activism in Selma, Alabama, when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. While other journalists wrote stories about the fallen president, Breslin secured an interview with Malcolm Perry, the Parkland Hospital doctor who had tried to save him. He followed that up with a powerful column about Clifton Pollard, the man who dug Kennedy’s grave. As journalist David Shedden later wrote, “It’s a plainly told story -- no breathtaking sentences here -- but the style is effective in its Hemingway-esque directness. Breslin moves from the gravedigger’s perspective, to a more omniscient view of the funeral, back to the worker. We like the passage about Jackie Kennedy, its moving description of her particular, telling gestures. But the piece’s central power lies in Breslin’s juxtaposition of the cemetery workers, the small details of the scene’s sounds and sights, with the enormity of the event." From there, Breslin secured positions as a columnist for a succession of New York newspapers, gaining a reputation as a staunch opponent of corruption and injustice. Like Mailer, Breslin was seen as a pioneer of the New Journalism movement and often mixed his own experience with his journalistic reportage of political events. In 1969, he published the true-crime book, The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight, about mobster “Crazy Joe” Gallo and his band of bungling baddies. The book was made into a film in 1971.
Breslin continued to be an influential writer until his death in 2017. In 1973, he wrote another novel, World Without End, Amen. In 1977, Breslin again gained notoriety for a series of compelling articles on the infamous “Son of Sam” serial killer, David Berkowitz. In response to those essays and in the midst of his killing spree, Berkowitz wrote to Breslin: “Hello from the cracks in the sidewalks of N.Y.C. and from the ants that dwell in these cracks and feed on the dried blood of the dead that has settled into the cracks.” The murderer continued, “J.B., I’m just dropping you a line to let you know that I appreciate your interest in those recent and horrendous .44 killings. I also want to tell you that I read your column daily and find it quite informative.” In 1978, Breslin received a sizable advance to co-write a book about the Son of Sam murders with Dick Schaap, titled, .44. Many viewed the book as exploitative and in poor taste so soon after the traumatic events. In 1986, Breslin won a Pulitzer Prize, in part for his writing about the AIDS epidemic in New York City, as well his broader work championing the causes of ordinary people. In later decades, he published a memoir, I Want to Thank My Brain for Remembering Me (1996), as well as a non-fiction account of a Mexican construction worker in New York who was killed on site when a building collapsed, The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutiérrez (2002), and a final book about the mafia, titled, The Good Rat (2008). Los Angeles Times columnist Jack Smith described Breslin, "like an Irish wind that has blown through Queens and Harlem and Mutchie's bar. It is a pound of Hemingway and a pound of Joyce and 240 pounds of Breslin." Following his death in 2017, Tom Wolfe called him, “incredible, the greatest newspaper columnist of my era.”
"Crazy Joe" Gallo
1960 election
1968 election
51st State plan
Adele Mailer
AIDS
Amen
Anti-War
Apollo 11
Armies of the Night
Black Panther Party
bullshit
Can’t Anybody Here Play This Game?
Charles B. Rangel
Chicago
Chicago '68
CIA
Clifton Pollard
Cuba
Dallas
David Berkowitz
David Shedden
Dick Schaap
electoral politics
Esquire
Fair Play for Cuba Committee
feminism
Florida
Gary Gilmore
George Forman
Gloria Steinam
grave digger
Great Society
Greenwich Village
Harlot’s Ghost
hipster
homosexuality
Huey Newton
Hunter S. Thompson
I Want to Thank My Brain for Remembering Me
Illinois
Jack Smith
Jackie Kennedy
Jimmy Breslin
Joan Didion
John F. Kennedy
Kate Millett
LBJ
Lee Harvey Oswald
libertarianism
Mafia
Malcolm Perry
March on the Pentagon
Miami
Miami and the Siege of Chicago
moon landing
Muhammad Ali
National Book Award
New Journalism
New Left
New York
New York Daily News
No More Bullshit
Norman Mailer
Parkland Hospital
Pentagon
Pulitzer Prize
Queens
Richard Nixon
Rumble in the Jungle
Son of Sam
Superman Comes to the Supermarket
Sweet Sundays
Texas
The Executioner’s Song
The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight
The Good Rat
The Naked and the Dead
The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutiérrez
The Village Voice
The White Negro
Throw the Rascals In
Tom Wolfe
Truman Capote
Utah
Vietnam War
Watergate
Why Are We in Vietnam?
Women's Liberation
working-class
World Without End
Writers and Editors War Tax Protest
Zaire
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Posters and Graphic Design
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The movements of the Sixties produced a rich history of political posters and other graphic arts. These posters were hung in political offices, bookstores, bedrooms and in public. The posters collected here include designs related to the anti-war movement, Black Power, women’s liberation, the Yippies, counterculture, the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, anti-imperialism, the Cuban Revolution, environmentalism, Bernie Sanders’ elections for Burlington mayor, anti-communism, the labor movement, corporate inequality, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and other topics. Of particular note are a series of posters created by the OSPAAAL, the Organisation in Solidarity with the People of Africa, Asia and Latin America, the main publisher of international solidarity posters in Cuba.
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Roz Payne
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Yippie, Miami 1972
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Counterculture and Anti-Vietnam War Movement
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This poster promoted Yippie protests at the Democratic and Republican National Conventions in Miami Beach, Florida, in 1972, the last time both major parties held their presidential conventions in the same city. Notably, these protests also included a break-away group from the original Yippies, led by Tom Forcade and called the "Zippies," for "Zeitgeist International Party." Contingents at the demonstrations also included the Vietnam Veterans Against the War and a large group of women’s liberation activists.
At the Republican Convention, about 3,000 anti-war activists, many wearing painted death masks and some splattered with red paint, confronted delegates, chanting, cursing, jostling and pounding on cars. Protesters aimed to force well-dressed delegates to walk through a "gauntlet of shame" as they approached the guarded gates of the convention. Protesters yelled, “Murderers, murderers” and "delegates kill!" Some protesters also broke windows along the main thoroughfare in Miami Beach during the protests, resulting in 212 arrests. Black Panther Party leader, Bobby Seale, who had recently been released from four years in jail as a result of his participation in the 1968 demonstrations outside the Democratic Convention in Chicago, participated in the protests and at one point led demonstrators in chanting, “One, two, three, four. We don't want your f---ing war.” Daniel Ellsberg, who was facing criminal prosecution for releasing the Pentagon Papers, spoke to a more subdued crowd of anti-war demonstrators outside the convention center as Nixon was being nominated inside. Vietnam war veteran turned anti-war activist, Ron Kovic, also participated in the protests at the Republican National Convention.
The Democratic Convention also saw a variety of protests, inside the conventional hall and outside of it. Inside, previously excluded political activists clashed with traditional party leaders and activists in sessions that often extended late into the night. Outside, anti-war, black freedom, feminist, gay rights and other activists rallied and demonstrated. Anti-poverty advocates constructed "Resurrection City II," named after "Resurrection City," which had been constructed in Washington, D.C. in 1968 as a part of the Poor People's Campaign. "Gonzo" journalist, Hunter S. Thompson, chronicled the 1972 Democratic Convention in his book, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72.
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Youth International Party
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Roz Payne
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Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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1972
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poster
1972 Democratic Convention
1972 election
1972 Republican Convention
Anti-War
Black Panther Party
Bobby Seale
counterculture
Daniel Ellsberg
demonstration
electoral politics
feminism
Florida
gay liberatiom
George McGovern
Hunter S. Thompson
Miami Beach
Poor People's Campaign
Resurrection City
Richard Nixon
Ron Kovic
Tom Forcade
Vietnam Veterans Against the War
Vietnam War
Women's Liberation
Yippies
Youth International Party
Zeitgeist International Party
Zippies