This footage, in which SNCC Freedom Summer organizer Bob Moses speaks [...]
This footage, in which SNCC Freedom Summer organizer Bob Moses speaks while students burn draft cards to a jazz version of “Down by the Riverside,” was filmed by Ernest Callenbach, who later became famous as the author of the 1975 environmentalist novel Ecotopia https://t.co/FiIrrbaoDX
May 24, 1965: 58 years ago, May 23 1965, the first Vietnam Day, a 35-hour teach-in on [...]
58 years ago, May 23 1965, the first Vietnam Day, a 35-hour teach-in on the Vietnam War, ended in Berkeley. The event was organized by the Vietnam Day Committee, a direct outgrowth of the Free Speech Movement led by activist Jerry Rubin Some 35,000 people attended the teach-in; many camped …
@outsidadgitator That sounds fun
@outsidadgitator That sounds fun
May 17, 1927: 96 years ago, May 16 1927, the Supreme Court upheld the Criminal [...]
96 years ago, May 16 1927, the Supreme Court upheld the Criminal Syndicalism Act conviction of suffragist & cofounder of the Communist Labor Party’s Oakland chapter Charlotte Anita Whitney. While she received a pardon, the ruling legitimized California’s assault on radical speech Whitney was just one of a number of …
Bobby Seale reading the Black Panther Party’s Ten-Point Program, which was [...]
Bobby Seale reading the Black Panther Party’s Ten-Point Program, which was first published on this date in 1967 https://t.co/9v1fRWARhk This footage is from a Free Huey rally at the Oakland Auditorium at which the Black Panther Party formally merged with civil rights organization SNCC https://t.co/OSwTo7sm3k