USH: Justice Movements of the 60s and 70s Archives - Daniel Aaron Lazar Fri, 12 Jun 2020 16:23:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 How Natives Took Alcatraz for 18 Months https://daniellazar.com/2020/05/11/how-natives-took-alcatraz-for-18-months/ Mon, 11 May 2020 19:01:41 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5944 On Nov. 20, 1969, more than 70 Native Americans gathered before dawn on a dock in San Francisco Bay. They boarded three boats and sailed from the small, foggy harbor in Sausalito, Calif., to Alcatraz Island. They intended to make landfall on territory belonging to the United States government with the intent of claiming it … Continue reading How Natives Took Alcatraz for 18 Months →

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]]> When Martin Luther King Came Out Against Vietnam https://daniellazar.com/2017/07/10/when-martin-luther-king-came-out-against-vietnam/ Mon, 10 Jul 2017 12:03:58 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5726 Dr. King’s Riverside Church address exemplified how, throughout his final 18 months of life, he repeatedly rejected the sunny optimism of his 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech and instead mourned how that dream had “turned into a nightmare.” But the speech also highlighted how for Dr. King, civil rights was never a discrete problem … Continue reading When Martin Luther King Came Out Against Vietnam →

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]]> 18 Rules Of Behavior For Young Ladies In 1831 https://daniellazar.com/2015/11/23/18-rules-of-behavior-for-young-ladies-in-1831/ Mon, 23 Nov 2015 05:19:07 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5455 “Rules of behavior for Young Ladies, partly extracted from this work and the most celebrated books on Ladies education.” Avoid every thing masculine. Be not too often seen in public. Consult only your own relations. Don’t even hear a double entendre. Endeavor to write and speak grammatically. Fondness for finery shows as bad a taste, … Continue reading 18 Rules Of Behavior For Young Ladies In 1831 →

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]]> Fresh Air Intewrview: '70s 'Days Of Rage' https://daniellazar.com/2015/05/12/fresh-air-intewrview-70s-days-of-rage/ Tue, 12 May 2015 06:54:38 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5252 Bryan Burrough’s new book describes the Weather Underground and other militant groups’ tactics to protest the government. He interviews former radicals who had never gone on the record before.

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]]> Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. "The Equal Rights Amendment" https://daniellazar.com/2015/05/12/firing-line-with-william-f-buckley-jr-the-equal-rights-amendment/ Tue, 12 May 2015 06:36:02 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5236 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWyv5Fw0JSk&feature=youtu.be

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]]> Lecture: The New Left https://daniellazar.com/2014/03/23/lecture-the-new-left/ Sun, 23 Mar 2014 17:03:18 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=4903 Here is my lecture on the social justice movements of the 1960’s and 70’s. Lecture Outline: Students for a Democratic Society (1962) Free Speech Movement (1964-65) The Weather Underground (1969) Youth International Party or YIPPIES (1968) The American Indian Movement (1968) Second Wave Feminism Chicano Movement Gay Liberation Movement Environmental Movement

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]]> What happened to the environmental movement? https://daniellazar.com/2013/09/20/what-happened-to-the-environmental-movement/ Fri, 20 Sep 2013 05:49:17 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=4693 Adam Rome’s genial new book, “The Genius of Earth Day: How a 1970 Teach-in Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation” (Hill & Wang), brings to life another era. We’re as distant from Earth Day as the Battle of Gettysburg was from James Monroe’s reëlection, and Rome evokes a United States that feels, politically, like a … Continue reading What happened to the environmental movement? →

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]]> Buckley, Kerouac, Sanders and Yablonsky discuss Hippies https://daniellazar.com/2013/05/26/buckley-kerouac-sanders-and-yablonsky-discuss-hippies/ Sun, 26 May 2013 13:05:08 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=4541 A 1968 episode of William F. Buckley’s Firing Line, featuring a drunken Jack Kerouac, the Fug’s Ed Sanders and a clueless academic, Lewis Yablonsky, discussing the “Hippie” movement.

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]]> The Guerrilla Skirmishes of the Sexual Revolution https://daniellazar.com/2013/05/26/the-guerrilla-skirmishes-of-the-sexual-revolution/ Sun, 26 May 2013 13:02:41 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=4538   Fifty years ago this week, panty-seeking college boys lit the fuse on the 1960s. “Imagine being the typical 20-year-old American-male college student in May of 1952. You have come of age in the new era of the American teenager. You are living in close quarters with thousands of peers amid a campus boom made possible … Continue reading The Guerrilla Skirmishes of the Sexual Revolution →

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]]> FSM Documents https://daniellazar.com/2013/05/25/fsm-documents/ Sat, 25 May 2013 20:35:43 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=4507 LETTER FROM BERKELEY By Calvin Trillin Published originally in The New Yorker, March 13, 1965 The  conclusion of Mario Savio’s memorable speech, before Free Speech Movement demonstrators entered Sproul Hall to begin their sit-in on December 3, 1964 An article about Mario Savio appeared in the February 16, 1965 issue of Life Magazine (‘The university has become a factory”) Several essays … Continue reading FSM Documents →

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