Introduction : seeds of the 1960s protest movement
1. Raised voices : the Berkley free speech movement
Freedom of speech / The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution ratified December 15, 1791
"A spectre is haunting the university" / leaflet from the FSM Steering Committee, December 1964
"The bodies upon the gears" / Mario Savio's speech on the Sproul Hall steps, UC-Berkeley, December 2, 1964
The function of the University in time of crisis / Noam Chomsky's speech on the role of the University, 1969
2. Flowers in their hair : voices of the hippie movement
"The class structure of Hippie society" / Dr. Sherry Cavan's article on the economics of Hippie society, October 1972
"The gathering of the tribes" / promotional article in the San Francisco Oracle, January 1967
"Trip without a ticket" / The Digger Papers, August 1968
"The community of the tribe" / Tom Law's article on Hippie culture, 1967
"Marxism and nonviolence" conversation with Isaac Deutscher
3. Hell no, we won't go : protesting the Vietnam War
The Port Huron Statement / Students for a Democratic Society's manifesto, June 1962
"The incredible war" / Paul Potter's essay on the Vietnam War, April 7, 1965
"The great silent majority" / President Nixon's Address to the American People, November 3, 1969
4. We shall overcome : protesting racial discrimination
"A moral crisis / John F. Kennedy's Address on Civil Rights, June 11, 1963
"We shall overcome" / Lyndon B. Johnson's Voting Rights Speech, March 15, 1965
"Black Power" / Stokely Carmichael's speech to the SNCC, October 29, 1966
5. I am a woman : protesting gender discrimination
Equal rights for women / Shirley Chisholm's speech in the House of Representatives, May 21, 1969
Judge Carswell and the "sex plus" doctrine / Betty Friedan's testimony before the Senate Judicial Committee, January 29, 1970
"We won't be silent anymore" / Gloria Steinem's testimony on the Equal Rights Amendment, May 6, 1970
"Living the revolution" / Gloria Steinem's Commencement Speech at Vassar College, May 31, 1970
6. Embracing differences : protesting GLBT discrimination
"Under conditions other than honorable" / Fannie Mae Clackum v. United States, January 20, 1960
"Raid on the Black Cat Bar" / press release from the Tavern Guild of Southern California, January 5, 1967
"Unfitness to teach"? / Morrison v. State Board of Education, November 20, 1969
"Full moon over the Stonewall" / Howard Smith's article in the Village Voice, July 2, 1969
7. A voice from the past, demanding to be heard : the Native American
"On the art of stealing human rights" / Gerry Gambill's speech at a conference on human rights, August 1968
"The meaning of AIM" / Birgil Kills Straight's letter to the editor, 1973
The NARP Eight-Point Program / article from the Native Alliance for Red Power Newsletter, June-July 1969
Establishing the National Council on Indian Opportunity / Lyndon B. Johnson's Executive Order 11399, March 6, 1968
"Eighteen thousand pages" / a guide to the microfilm edition of the FBI files on the American Indian Movement, 1986
8. The fight in the fields : Latino protests of the era
"Viva la causa" / statement of Senator Robert F. Kennedy at a rally of the United Farm Workers, March 10, 1968
"Men are not angels" / Cesar Chavez's letter from Delano, April 4, 1969
"The boycott is our major weapon" / Dolores Huerta's statement to Congress, July 15, 1969
Timeline of key events in the Protest Era of the 1960s.
