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Our Sixties: An Activist's History

Our Sixties: An Activist's History

Lauter, Paul

Hardcover

20th Century United States HistoryGeneral EducationGeneral World History

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ISBN10: 1580469906
ISBN13: 9781580469906
Publisher: Univ Of Rochester Pr
Published: Oct 1 2020
Pages: 300
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
The social movements of the 1960s - still vital and challenging - seen through the author's experiences as a civil rights activist, a feminist, an antiwar organizer, and a radical teacher.

Today, some fifty years after, we celebrate - or excoriate - the Sixties. Using his wide-ranging experience as an activist and writer, Paul Lauter examines the values, the exploits, the victories, the implications, and sometimes the failings, of the Movement of that conflicted time. In Our Sixties, Lauter writes about movement activities from the perspective of a full-time participant: 1964 Mississippi freedom schools; Students for a Democratic Society (SDS); the Morgan community school in Washington, DC, which he headed; a variety of antiwar, antidraft actions; the New University Conference, a radical group of faculty and graduate students; The Feminist Press, which he helped found; and the United States Servicemen's Fund, an organization supporting antiwar GIs. He got fired, got busted, got published, and even got tenure. He honed his skills writing for the New York Review of Books among other magazines. As a teacher he created innovative courses ranging from Revolutionary Literature and Contesting the Canon to The Sixties in Fiction, Poetry, and Film. He led the development of the groundbreaking Heath Anthology of American Literature and remains its general editor.

Lauter's book offers both a retrospective look at the social justice struggles of the Sixties and an account of how his participation in these struggles has shaped his life. Social history as well as personal chronicle, this account is for those who recall that turbulent decade as well as for those who seek to better understand its impact on American politics and society in our current era.

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