Title: "Takin' it to the streets" : a sixties reader /
Authors: Bloom, Alexander.; Breines, Wini.
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 1995
Subjects: United States History Sources.; United States History; United States Civilization Sources.; United States Civilization
Abstract: Takin' It to the Streets is a comprehensive collection of primary documents covering political, social and cultural aspects of the 1960's. Drawn from mainstream sources, little-known sixties periodicals, pamphlets and public speeches, this anthology brings together representative writings many of which have been unavailable for years or have never been reprinted, from the Port Huron Statement and Malcolm X's "The Ballot or the Bullet" to Richard Nixon's "If Mob Rule Takes Hold in the U.S." and Ronald Reagan's "Freedom versus Anarchy on Campus." Introductions and headnotes by the editors help highlight the importance of particular documents while relating them to each other and placing them within the broader context of the decade. While paying particular attention to civil rights, anti-war activity, Black power, the counter-culture, the women's and gay/lesbian struggles for recognition, the authors also take into account the conservative backlashes these sparked and thus present a balanced portrait of a tumultous era. Covering an extremely popular period of history, Takin' It to the Streets stands out as a thorough and accessible collection of documents, an authoritative reader for a decade such as America had not seen before or experienced since.
Contents: The Jackson sit-in / Anne Moody -- SNCC : founding statement -- The freedom rides / James Farmer -- Wake up America / John Lewis -- Letters from Mississippi -- Testimony before the Democratic National Convention / Fannie Lou Hamer and Rita Schwerner -- SNCC position paper : women in the movement -- Sex and caste : a kind of memo / Casey Hayden and Mary King -- Selma / Sheyann Webb -- The Port Huron statement -- Letter to the new left / C. Wright Mills -- Raising the question of who decides / Casey Hayden -- How to help the ones at the bottom / Jean Smith -- The politics of the "movement" / Tom Hayden -- Cleveland : conference of the poor / Connie Brown -- The wedding within the war / Michael Rossman -- An end to history / Mario Savio -- To the students of Political Science 113 -- Do not fold, bend, mutilate or spindle -- Catch-801 / Marvin Garson -- Freedom is a big deal / Barbara Garson -- Memories of FSM / Bettina Aptheker -- In White America : radical consciousness and social change / Gregory Calvert -- Student power : a radical view / Carl Davidson -- The ballot or the bullet / Malcolm X -- Violence in the city-an end or a beginning? The McCone commission report on Watts, and Watts : the aftermath / Paul Bullock -- The basis of Black power / SNCC --