Radical Politics - The Long Sixties: Clash of Radicalisms

Clash of Radicalisms: Jews and People of Color at Brooklyn College

Brooklyn College American Studies 3212 Professor Jocelyn Wills May 23, 2018 Jesse Brennan Clash of Radicalisms: Jews and People of Color at Brooklyn College The Long 60s is marked by the confluence of multiple streams of social and political activism by different groups, each clamoring for change and demanding attention

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1970 NYC Hard Hat Workers vs. Students

In 1970, a group of "hard hats" or structural iron workers got into a battle with anti-war student protestors in lower Manhattan. New York has some ugly riots in its history. One of the strangest is the Hard Hat Riot, a clash between construction workers and war protesters

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1969 Radical Gay Riot vs. Police Bigots

The Stonewall Rebellion in NYC signalled the start of the gay pride movement, which has continued its progressive and liberation movement until this day. Here we had oppressive Irish (as seen through the phrase "paddy-wagon") and Italian Catholic lower-middle class cops facing down a rebellion of an ethnic/

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1968 Rioting Police vs. Student Protestors

Irish-American Mayor Daley was quite a bigot, referring to Senator Abraham Ribicoff as a "Jew Sonovabitch." Senator Abraham Ribicoff was the Senator who at the Chicago Democratic Convention said Daley's police forces were using "Gestapo tactics." So here the conflict is between upper-middle class and lower-middle

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What caused the Clash of the Radicalisms?

One might wonder why the different identity "the Movement" of Progressivism and Social Justice sometimes devolved into bitter feuds with eachother and with radical Right-Wing groups? What happened to the Keynesian Consensus? What happened to the Rockefeller Republicans? What caused all this turmoil? The Right? Left? Who? Answer:

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Radical Black vs. Radical Italian Clashes

In 1967, a Riot broke out in Newark NJ after reports circulated about police beating a Black man. Death(s) 26 were killed, 727 injured, and 1,465 arrested during the "Long, Hot Summer." Newark was one of the first black majority cities in the United States. Its

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Radicalization in 1960s Madison, Wisconsin: One Participant's Reflection

From Solidarity February 27, 2012 by Patrick M. Quinn The three most radicalized university campuses during the late 1960s were Columbia University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the University of California at Berkeley. What follows is an account of the radicalization in Madison during the years 1962 to 1971 based

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The Young Lords

The Young Lords was a Puerto Rican group of radicals, virtually took over parts of New York City in the 1960s and early 1970s fighting for self-determination for Latinos and against racial discrimination and inequality. What started as a turf gang on the streets of Chicago in the fall of

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Activism Fizzles in Early 1970s

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

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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 Archives