Leaders from the 1960s A Biographical Sourcebook of American Activism

Subjects:

• History » American History -- 1946 to Present

Awards:

• Choice Outstanding Academic Book, 1994

Reviews:

• This book traces the lives of many famous-or in some eyes notorious-cultural, social, and political activists of the 1960s and provides follow-up information on their later lives. The entries are well written. This is enthusiastically recommended for public and undergraduate libraries.
  —Library Journal
• Within each section individual leaders are treated in signed articles of varying length that explain the biographees' background and significance and include a bibliography of works by and about them. The list of contributors, most of them teaching faculty, is impressive. The best feature of this work is its breadth of coverage, which encompasses well-known leaders and individuals who are often forgotten. This is a valuable compendium and sourcebook for all students of the sixties; general and undergraduate collections.
  —Choice
• While there is a lot of nostalgia today for 1960s pop culture, many people are unaware of the important changes in society that resulted from this period and of the people who were responsible for them....This collection of biographies surveys the lives and accomplishments of 86 men and women who range on the political spectrum from liberal to radical. Entries are arranged by such topics as the civil rights, antiwar, environmental, and women's movements....Those who experienced this era will find this interesting, but it is also important for younger readers, who need to know that the sixties weren't just about Woodstock, bell bottoms, and LSD.
  —Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin
• Twenty or so years ago Newsweek magazine had a feature called "Where are they now?" which reprised and told what had become of figures who had been in the news years before but faded from view. This dictionary provides that sort of information for some eighty leaders of the 1960s who challenged societal assumptions. Its substantial essays do more than that, however: they also explain how each of these leaders came to question society, analyze their thought, and assess their impact. Those who have no personal experience of the 1960s will find that the profiles and their substanital bibliographies provide ideal entrée into that era's ideas through the lives of their chief proponents.
  —Wilson Library Bulletin
• The book is about people at odds with present American society. This collection is current, concise, and presents a wealth of information that can be found easily. The bibliographies alone can guide a learner who wants to dig deeper into a cause or the life of one of these Americans.
  —VOYA

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Introduction
• Racial Democracy
• Dennis Banks by Raymond Wilson
• Imamu Amiri Baraka [Leroi Jones] by Alan Spears
• Vernon Bellecourt by Rolland Dewing
• Mary Frances Berry by Genna Rae McNeil
• Julian Bond by Peter B. Levy
• H. Rap Brown [Jamil Adullah Al-Amin] by Maceo Dailey, Jr.
• César Chávez by John C. Hammerback and Richard J. Jensen
• Shirley Chisholm by Debra Newman Ham
• Eldridge Cleaver by Kenneth O'Reilly
• Vine Deloria, Jr. by Clifford M. Lytle, Jr.
• James Farmer by Paula F. Pfeffer
• Louis Farrakhan by Lawrence H. Mamiya
• James Forman by Glenn Perusek
• José Angel Gutiérrez by Richard J. Jensen and John C. Hammerback
• Fannie Lou Hamer by Kay Mills
• Martin Luther King, Jr. by Ralph E. Luker
• Russell Means by Raymond Wilson
• Robert Parris Moses by Eric Burner
• Leonard Peltier by L. G. Moses
• Bayard Rustin by Donald Roe
• Bobby Seale by Rev. Cecil Gray
• Reies Lopéz Tijerina by John C. Hammerback and Richard J. Jensen
• Malcolm X [El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz] by David DeLeon
• Peace and Freedom
• Philip Berrigan by Anne Klejment
• Rev. William Sloane Coffin, Jr. by Milton S. Katz
• Ron Kovic by John Kultgen
• Staughton Lynd by Glen Perusek
• David McReynolds by Larry Gara
• Mark Rudd by W. J. Rorabaugh
• Mario Savio by W. J. Rorabaugh
• Dr. Benjamin Spock by William Graebner
• Sexuality and Gender: Liberation from Stereotypes
• Bella Abzug by Susan M. Hartman
• Ti-Grace Atkinson by Beatrice K. Reynolds
• Betty Friedan by Frances Arick Kolb
• Frank Kameny by David K. Johnson
• Del Martin/Phyllis Lyon by Kate Brandt
• William H. Masters/Virginia E. Johnson by Sara Alpern
• Eleanor Holmes Norton by Lillian Williams
• Gloria Steinem by Frances Arick Kolb
• For a Safe Environment
• Edward Abbey by Kingsley Widmer
• Murray Bookchin by John Clark
• Lester Brown by Sean M. Enright
• Barry Commoner by Charles T. Rubin
• Paul Ehrlich by Kathryn Wald Hausbeck
• Denis Hayes by W. J. Rorabaugh
• Ralph Nader by Jennifer Scarlott
• Radical Culture
• Joan Baez by Ronald D. Cohen
• Peter Collier/David Horowitz by Thomas R. West
• Bob Dylan by Ronald D. Cohen
• Jane Fonda by Regina Akers
• H. Bruce Franklin by W. J. Rorabaugh
• Allen Ginsberg by Linda Hamalian
• Dick Gregory by Thomas Joseph Davis
• John Holt by Susan Douglas Franzosa
• Irving Howe by Alan Wald
• Maulana Ron Karenga by Waldo E. Martin, Jr.
• Ken Kesey by Stephen L. Tanner
• Jonathan Kozol by Peter Andre Sola
• Julius Lester by Priscilla Ramsey
• Country Joe McDonald by David Pichaske
• Phil Ochs by David Pichaske
• Kenneth Rexroth by Geoffrey Gardner
• Jerry Rubin by Leslie Fishbein
• Pete Seeger by Robbie Lieberman
• John Alexander Sinclair by William Graebner
• Gore Vidal by Kingsley Widmer
• Visions of Alternative Societies
• Heather Booth by Ann Withorn
• Noam Chomsky by Carlos P. Otero
• Angela Davis by Sylvia Bennett Hill
• Dorothy Day by Mel Piehl
• Ronald V. Dellums by Robert C. Smith
• Paul Goodman by Taylor Stoehr
• Michael Harrington by Gary Dorrien
• Tom Hayden by Thomas R. Maddux
• Dorothy Healey by Maurice Isserman
• Jesse Jackson by Russell L. Adams
• C. L. R. James by Kent Worcester
• Margaret (Maggie) Kuhn by W. Andrew Achenbaum
• William Moses Kunstler by John Wildeman
• Sidney Lens by Edward K. Spann
• Herbert Marcuse by Douglas Kellner
• I. F. Stone by Robert Cottrell
• James Weinstein by Sally Miller