The Long Sixties: Clash of Radicalisms (Page 2)

The Long Sixties: Clash of Radicalisms

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Middle East Teach-In

Middle East Teach-In

April 11, 1967 marked

Bombing For Justice: JDL

Bombing For Justice: JDL

From Bombing For Justice 2014 Bombing for Justice: Urban Terrorism in New York City from the 1960s through the 1980s Jeffrey A. Kroessler, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, 2014 The New York-born Jewish Defense League (JDL) may also be classified as an international terrorist organization because they were not

Activism Fizzles in Early 1970s

Radical Politics Featured

Activism Fizzles in Early 1970s

The furor of demonstrations wound down as the 1960s ended.

What does it take to stop a War?

Vietnam Featured

What does it take to stop a War?

On November 13, 1966 Broooklyn College Students joined an antiwar demonstration in Foley Square in lower Manhattan, home of the Draft Board.

There's a War going on...

Vietnam Featured

There's a War going on...

...and not just in Vietnam. Students at Brooklyn College took seriously the advice to "Bring the War Home!" On the day of

The Other America

Poverty Featured

The Other America

The Other America by Michael Harrington, which was originally published in 1962, became a widely read armament in what would eventually become known as the “War on Poverty.” Harrington argued that people fail and fall into a vicious cycle of poverty by being born to the wrong people in the

Science, Technology and the Environment

Technology Featured

Science, Technology and the Environment

The Sixties were marked by major changes in the areas of Science, Technology and Environment. In 1962. President John F. Kennedy gave a speech at Rice University charting a course for space exploration. Big, cosmic technological breakthroughs occurred during the necessity of the Space Race. The major goal was the

Gender and Sexuality

Sexuality Featured

Gender and Sexuality

While reading Lucian IV’s 1969 Village Voice Essay Gay Power Comes to Sheridan Square I am struck by his use of the phrase “Gay Power” which is obviously based on the slogan “Black Power.” I suppose this points to an intersectionality of the New Left which incorporated progressive views

The Things They Carried

Vietnam Featured

The Things They Carried

The Things They Carried tells us about the unease and lack of confidence in their mission the US soldiers had during the Vietnam War. Some soldiers even turned into monsters. What I found interesting was I was originally under the impression that Mary Anne Bell joined the Viet Cong, apparently

Freedom Summer

Freedom Summer Bruce Watson’s Freedom Summer was published in 2010, but it looks back at the “Mississippi Summer” of 1964 which by all accounts was one of the most important events in the social upheavals in the Long 1960s. Mississippi was one of the most segregated and socially regressive

Stonewall Uprising

Sexuality Featured

Stonewall Uprising

In June of 1969, a spontaneous demonstration erupted after a police raid of a gay bar in New York's Greenwich Village. This signalled the beginning of the gay pride movement.

Dershowitz vs. Kahane

Dershowitz vs. Kahane

Brooklyn College Alumnus Alan Dershowitz debated Rabbi Meir Kahane in 1985 on the issue of Israel. The two attended the same Yeshiva High School in Brooklyn, and both attended Brooklyn College. (From The New York Times November 13, 1984) They attended the same yeshiva high school in Brooklyn and grew

Radical Politics Featured

Angela Davis

Angela Davis was a radical leader of the Communist Party USA in the 1960s. She was also connected with the Black Panther Party. Here's a picture of her where she went to East Germany in 1972. Here's a Free Angela Davis pin from the Brooklyn College

Death of Meir Kahane

Death of Meir Kahane

Rabbi Meir Kahane was the leader of the Jewish Defense League.