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August 16, 2007

Update: All the stories in 'American Stories from the Sixties'

Co-editor Karen Smith sent me the table of contents for the book -- Time It Was: American Stories from the Sixties -- that I wrote about in the previous post, this morning. I haven't finished it -- it's best taken slowly -- so here's a taste of all of it:

I. Vietnam
Introduction
Wayne Coe: “Blackhawk Five Four”
Episodes in the life of a U.S. helicopter pilot
Paul Coe: “Letters Home”
A draftee writes to his family from Vietnam
Leah O’Leary: “The GIs Called Us Donut Dollies”
A Red Cross volunteer in Vietnam
Tim Koster: “United States Blues”
The Draft Lottery and an unlucky birthday
Ngoc Quang Huynh: “A Life in Flight”
Escaping post-war Vietnam

II. Struggles for Social Justice
Introduction
Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons: “Mama Told Me Not to Go”
Working with SNCC in Mississippi, Freedom Summer 1964
Raymond Hubbard: “Deep in the Heart”
Growing up black in the Jim Crow South
Sara Evans: “Not My Mother’s Path”
A historian traces her journey to Women’s Liberation
Toby Marotta: “Students of Stonewall”
Encountering the militant Gay Liberation movement
Yolanda Retter Vargas: “Sisterhood is Possible”
The life of a feminist Latina lesbian.
Johnny Flynn: “Something in the Wind”
Spiritual renewal in the American Indian Movement.

III. Pathways
Introduction
Tom Collins: “Hope House”
Volunteer tutoring with Upward Bound, 1965-1966
John Manners: “The Peace Corps: Kenya, 1968-1972”
Teaching school in a newly-independent African nation
Jim Fadiman: “Opening the Doors of Perception”
Psychedelics and research in the Sixties
Steve Diamond: “Back to the Land”
A search for simplicity and spiritual health
Karen Smith: “The Process”
Five years in a New Age religious cult

IV. Conservative Currents
Introduction
John Werlich: Born on the Fourth of July
The making of a conservative
Robert Poole: Libertarian Awakening
Campus conservative movements and the 1964 “Goldwater for President” campaign
Ron McCoy: “It Ain’t Me Babe: Working for Richard Nixon”
An insider’s view of Richard Nixon’s 1968 Republican presidential campaign.
Gerald Scott: “War on Drugs: A View From the Trenches”
Undercover in the DEA

V. Landmark Events
Introduction
Pat Royse: “Fire in the Streets”
Reporting on the Cleveland Riots, July 1966.
Tara Gordon: “Chicago ‘68”
Innocence and violence at the Democratic Convention.
Sheila Lennon: “Three Days of Peace and Music”
Remembering the Woodstock Concert, 1969
Carole Barbato and Laura Davis “Ordinary Lives: May 4, 1970”
Two students recall the shootings at Kent State

VI. Speaking Out
Introduction
Jackie Goldberg: “Sit Down! Sit Down!”
The Free Speech Movement at the University of California at Berkeley
Maria and Antonia Saludado: “Standing With Cesar”
Women in the United Farm Workers Movement
Sam Lovejoy: “Somebody’s Got to Do It”
Anti-Nuclear Activism and Civil Disobedience

I'm honored to be among them.

There's a wonderful comment posted tonight by one of the Rhode Islanders I interviewed for the Woodstock series back in 1989.

Posted by Sheila Lennon  at 9:52 PM | Permalink