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| The government’s use of “military purposes” as an excuse to spend money on the economy (passing everything as defense spending). Using the giant military budget to foster economic growth, counter recession, heat the economy, etc. |
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| Digger parade in Haight-Ashbury protesting capitalism, involving the burning of a coffin covered with dollar signs. |
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| The leading conservative journal in the 50s, started by William Buckley -- all the articles came from a rightist's point of view. |
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| During the women's liberation movement, a feminist writer who coined the slogan "The personal is the political" meaning "sexual politics" was a larger problem of social power. |
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| During the women's liberation movement, a feminist writer who coined the slogan "The personal is the political" meaning "sexual politics" was a larger problem of social power. |
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| "There's a Riot Goin' On" |
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| Record by Sly and the Family Stone that represented the end of the culture-integration ideal, rejecting integration as a form of assimilation. Stark contrast from previous recordings on racial togetherness. |
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| Theory people couldn't get jobs anymore if they didn't have diplomas --Vance Packard uses this term to describe social mobility. |
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| Part of a Digger protest involving the discarding of material goods into a large trash can. |
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| Courageous platoon leader of the Alpha Company during the Vietnam War in 1967. Tim O’Brien’s hero. |
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| White protester who “sat-in” with Anne Moody during the 1961 Woolworth sit-in. |
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| A successful festival of the Rock & Roll Revolution, held in 1967 in California. Served as a precursor to Woodstock and featured many revolutionary artists such as Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix. |
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| Song My (parent village of My Lai) area along the northern coast of South Vietnam. Viet Cong stronghold, one of the most-heavily mined combat zones during in the Vietnam war. |
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| Digger/ “Free Family” commune, one of Peter Coyote’s homes in California. |
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| Liberal American author who wrote about American poverty and brought it to public attention. |
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| Plan to prevent the Soviets from taking advantage of economic collapse after World War II; a multiyear reconstruction program for the U.S. to supply financial aid to Western Europe and Japan. |
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| (The Right of Spring) A Digger event, advertised by word of mouth to “more accurately demonstrate a free city celebration” that got out of hand, held in the Glide Church (February 1967). |
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| Marketing technique where companies would say that products were only for the special few and since no one wanted to be part of the masses they all thought they were special too and bought the products. |
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| In 1965, along with Casey Hayden, she composed a memo that argued women and blacks were both caught up in a common-law caste system which uses and exploits women. The memo served to express the grievances of sexism. |
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| President Johnson’s Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, which sought to build human capital as a remedy for poverty by investing in the improvement of school districts. “Education is the only valid passport out of poverty.” - LBJ |
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| Sociologist whose book The Power Elite (1956) asserted that a small group of military, business, and political leaders controlled the country in such a way that the majority of Americans were left powerless. |
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| A magazine that Vance Packard worked at; anti-communist; complimentary towards suburban american life |
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| A report which detailed the Soviet threat for Eisenhower after the launch of Sputnik. It used inflammatory language and was leaked to the press. Headlines warned the U.S. was about to become a second-class power and was in danger of Soviet missiles. |
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| White reverend that worked very closely with Anne Moody in the Movement in Jackson and Canton. Parttook in the Woolsworth Sit In. |
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| A bomb that explodes twice, first upwards, then at waist-level. |
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| Artists’ Liberation Front |
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| Gathering of San Francisco’s local artists bent on bypassing city-sponsored art and bringing community-based/colored/local artists to light. |
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| Notebook used by the Diggers to track expenses. Record of Digger’s “treasury." |
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| Berkeley student that mocked the administration there and encouraged the revolutions at colleges in the 1960s. Being in college you are training to become the society you are rebelling against. |
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| Economic Research and Action Project which in 1964 set up in Northern Ghettos and attempted to organize an interracial movement of the poor that focused on issues such as jobs and community control of social programs. |
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| Legislation under JFK in 1961 that proposed money would be put into industrialization to stimulate the economy and stop unemployment and poverty rates from going up |
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| One of the results of Military Keynesianism passed in 1956, which made new highways, improved highway safety, and increased accessibility. |
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| Encouraged recipients of government assistance to participate in administering government programs, "maximum feasible participation." Encourage local communities to form agencies to mobilize the community to promote fundamental change. “Maximum Feasible Participation” a clause that said community action agencies must be developed with the maximum feasible participation of the community, including the poor. |
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| National Defense Education Act |
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| A billion dollar package to provide aid to schools and universities to lessen the widening science and technology gap between the U.S. and the USSR. |
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| After refusing to defer his aide from the draft, McCarthy charged the army with coddling communists, the army countercharged McCarthy tried to blackmail them into giving David Schine special treatment. A dramatic, televised Senate hearing ensued and 20 million viewers saw McCarthy's vicious attacks on loyalty of all those who resisted him. McCarthy failed to pass a critical media test and it lead to a dramatic slide in his approval rating. |
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| Best senior Negro college in Mississippi; Anne Moody’s alma mater. |
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| “Two, Three Many Columbias” |
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| Article written by ex-SDS president Tom Hayden, published in 1968, heralding the Columbia student riots as a model to follow and an omen of things to come. |
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| Second in command at the U.S. embassy in Moscow who believed the government should implement a policy of long term, patient but firm and vigilant containment which would become the operating principle behind American foreign policy during the Cold War. |
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| A leading Freedom Rider and former SNCC president who was elected to U.S. Congress and took his commitment to racial justice with him to Capitol Hill. |
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| Town in Mississippi where Anne Moody and her Freedom House co-workers fought for racial equality, de-segregation, and the right to vote. |
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| Head of the Columbia University SDS (Student Democratic Society); started the 1968 Columbia riots that took over the university for 8 days. Said, “Up against the wall, motherfucker!” |
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| Tom, Elvis Presley's manager who made him into an overnight phenomenon. |
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| Harvard ambassador and U.S. economist to India who questioned Kennedy's involvement in Vietnam. Author of 1958’s The Affluent Society, a book which likely contributed to the rediscovery of poverty (and consequent “war on poverty”), about the perils of the 1950’s “affluent society”. |
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| A renowned "New Dealer", FDR's Vice President for several terms. Towards the end of FDR's time, and into Truman's, was viewed by many as a communist sympathizer because of his lenient platform of the soviets. He ran for the Progressive Party in the 1948 election and lost by a landslide to Truman and Dewey. |
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| A renowned "New Dealer", FDR's Vice President for several terms. Towards the end of FDR's time, and into Truman's, was viewed by many as a communist sympathizer because of his lenient platform of the soviets. He ran for the Progressive Party in the 1948 election and lost by a landslide to Truman and Dewey. |
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| A renowned "New Dealer", FDR's Vice President for several terms. Towards the end of FDR's time, and into Truman's, was viewed by many as a communist sympathizer because of his lenient platform of the soviets. He ran for the Progressive Party in the 1948 election and lost by a landslide to Truman and Dewey. |
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| “The House in the Middle” |
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| Public service film with shows atomic tests in Nevada & effects on well-kept homes, homes filled with trash, and homes painted white showing cleanliness is a part of civil defense & home is a place where social/tech forces can be contained. |
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| ex-Communist writer who wrote the 1952 Western High Noon, a film which promoted heroism but was denounced as “anti-American”. |
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| A female member of the “Red Rockers”. First lady that Peter Coyote almost hit (an even that made him more cautious of his actions). |
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| A producer for tv and film from the 50s and he produced the Colgate Comedy hour. |
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| 1963 novel by Betty Friedan which lamented the societal waste in isolating educated, talented women in the "comfortable concentration camp" of the American home. Friedan said women should have meaningful jobs outside the home. Friedan went on to found the National Organization for Women to lobby for women's rights. |
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| State Department official under Kennedy and Johnson who opposed the escalation of the war in Vietnam. |
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| Leader of the NAACP in Mississippi, assassinated. |
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| Professor Schulman's great aunt. |
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