Our Sixties - An Activist's History

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.

List of contents

The Movement and Me
Among Friends in Philly
Mississippi Summer - A Quaker Vacation
Professing at Smith and Selma
Return to Mississippi (Goddam)
The Draft - From Protest to Resistance?
Dreaming of a Freedom School in DC (For Bob Silvers)
Resisting
A New University?
A Working-Class Movement of GIs
A Man in the Women's Movement
Where We Went and What We Did (and Did Not) Learn There
Authority and Our Discontents
Appendix A: A Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority
Appendix B: Syllabus for a Course on the Sixties

About the author

PAUL LAUTER is A. K. & G. M. Smith Professor of Literature Emeritus at Trinity College (Hartford). He was president of the American Studies Association and has won many awards from the academic associations in which he has worked, including, most recently, the Modern Language Association's Francis March Award for Distinguished Service to the Profession of English Studies and the Working-Class Studies Association's Lifetime Achievement Award.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Lauter, Paul (Customer) Lauter
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2020
• EAN: 9781580469906
• ISBN: 978-1-58046-990-6
• No. of pages: 300
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 233 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 573 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; 20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.), Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, HISTORY / Modern / General, HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, History - U.S.