Insider histories of the Vietnam era underground press Part 2 / edited by Ken Wachsberger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wachsberger, Ken.

Series:

Voices from the underground series.

Voices from the underground

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights--United States--History--20th century.

Human rights.

Underground press publications--United States.

Underground press publications.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements--United States.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (462 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This enlightening book offers a collection of histories of underground papers from the Vietnam Era as written and told by key staff members of the time. Their stories, building on those presented in Part 1, represent a wide range of publications: countercultural, gay, lesbian, feminist, Puerto Rican, Native American, Black, socialist, Southern consciousness, prisoners' rights, New Age, rank-and-file, military, and more. Wachsberger notes that the underground press not only produced a few well-known papers but also was truly national and diverse in scope. His goal is to capture the e

Contents:

Contents; Foreword - Susan Brownmiller; Preface - Ken Wachsberger; Soldiers Against the Vietnam War: Aboveground and The Ally - Harry W. Haines, with appendices by Harry W. Haines and James Lewes; Fast Times in the Motor City: The First Ten Years of the Fifth Estate, 1965-1975 - Bob Hippler, with an appendix by Patrick Halley; Fag Rag: The Most Loathsome Publication in the English Language - Charley Shively; The Kudzu: Birth and Death in Underground Mississippi - David Doggett; The Wong Truth Conspiracy: A History of Madison Alternative Journalism - Tim Wong

New Age: Worker Organizing from the Bottom Up - Paul KrehbielAin't No Party Like the One We Got: The Young Lords Party and Palante - Pablo "Yorúba" Guzmán; Let a Hundred Flowers Blossom, Let a Hundred Schools of Thought Contend: The Story of Hundred Flowers - Ed Felien; The Furies: Goddesses of Vengeance - Ginny Z. Berson, with appendices by Ginny Z. Berson and Charlotte Bunch; At This End of the Oregon Trail: The Eugene AUGUR, 1969-1974 - Peter Jensen; Karl and Groucho's Marxist Dance: The Columbus Free Press and Its Predecessors in the Columbus Underground - Steve Abbott

"Raising the Consciousness of the People": The Black Panther Intercommunal News Service, 1967-1980 - JoNina M. AbronBoth Sides Now Remembered: Or, The Once and Future Journal - Elihu Edelson; It Aint Me Babe: From Feminist Radicals to Radical Feminists - Bonnie Eisenberg, with help from Laura X, Trina Robbins, Starr Goode, and Alta, with appendices by Laura X and Trina Robbins; About the Authors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-62895-167-2

1-60917-328-7

OCLC:

820128507