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SOURCE: Bloomberg CityLab
2/16/2021
How White Liberals Destroyed the 1970s’ Soul City
by Brentin Mock
The new book "Soul City: Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia," by Seton Hall Law School professor Thomas Healy, explores the history of how and why Floyd McKissick’s experiment came to be, and its unceremonious end.
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SOURCE: Boston Review
10/7//2020
Getting to Freedom City (Review)
by Robin D.G. Kelley
Historian Robin Kelley reviews Mike Davis and Jon Weiner's "Set the Night on Fire," which chronicles the growth of resistance to inequality and miltarized policing in 1960s Los Angeles.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
7/21/2020
‘In a Perfectly Just Republic,’ Bella Abzug – Born a Century Ago – Would Have Been President
by Pamela S. Nadell
A warrior for every social justice movement of her day, Bella Savitzky Abzug stood on the front lines protesting injustices that still roil this nation.
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SOURCE: New York Times
7/1/2020
The Day the White Working Class Turned Republican (Review)
Clyde Haberman reviews David Paul Kuhn's "The Hardhat Riot" which proves heated social divisions--stoked and exploited by politicians--are nothing new.
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SOURCE: New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/obituaries/vale
Overlooked No More: Valerie Solanas, Radical Feminist Who Shot Andy Warhol
Solanas was a radical feminist (though she would say she loathed most feminists), a pioneering queer theorist (at least according to some) and the author of “SCUM Manifesto,” in which she argued for the wholesale extermination of men.
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SOURCE: New York Times
6/21/2020
A Racist Attack on Children Was Taped in 1975. We Found Them.
The Times located a number of the black children assaulted by white teens during an anti-integration march in Queens in 1975. The incident was just one part of an organized and often violent effort by white Rosedale residents to prevent racial integration.
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SOURCE: The New York Times
6/17/2020
The Rape Kit’s Secret History
This is the story of the woman who forced the police to start treating sexual assault like a crime.
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SOURCE: New York Times
5/21/2020
Rhody McCoy, Key Figure in New York’s School Wars, Dies at 97
McCoy headed the Brooklyn district where teacher transfers in 1968 sparked a bitter, racially-charged dispute over union seniority and community control.
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SOURCE: CNN
5/9/2020
'Mrs. America' Makes the Case for Messy History
In allowing various perspectives to shine through, "Mrs. America" takes a piece of the past that, through the work of time, has been smoothed of its rough edges and grants it complexity.
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SOURCE: Chattanooga Times-Free PRess
5/5/2020
Will Atlanta Child Murders Ever be Solved? Those Close to Case Fear Answer is 'No'
"Atlanta's Murdered and Missing" concluded Sunday with strong evidence that white supremacists may have been involved in the killings and the disappearances. Families of victims still despair of closure and justice.
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SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer
5/4/2020
On the 50th Anniversary, America’s Still not Fully Recovered from the Wounds of Kent State
by Will Bunch
Historian Thomas Grace argued that, contrary to the perception of student protesters as Ivy League elites, movements at Kent State built on family histories of labor unionism and the perception that working class kids' path to a better life was being short-circuited by the war in Vietnam.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
4/17/2020
We’re Living in Phyllis Schlafly’s America
The striking new Hulu miniseries "Mrs. America" reveals the conservative author’s deep impact on contemporary politics.
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SOURCE: Vanity Fair
4/8/2020
Mrs. America Conjures Up the Messy History of 1970s Feminism—and Anti-Feminism
Mrs. America doesn’t dwell just on Phyllis Schlafly. An ensemble series, it gathers an array of compelling women who’ve never quite gotten their due in history books, let alone had a prestige TV series devoted to them.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
3/10/2020
Joe Biden’s Big Vision for America: He Wants to Restore Faith in Government
by Gabriel Glickman
Read this historian's take on how Joe Biden's political past compares to his political present.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
2/12/20
What winning New Hampshire — and its media frenzy — could mean for Bernie Sanders
by Kathryn Cramer Brownell
The New Hampshire returns tell us a lot about the leading candidates.
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9/1/19
The Carter Presidency Reconsidered
by Richard Moe
“We told the truth, we obeyed the law, we kept the peace and we championed human rights.”
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6/30/19
What We Can Learn About Tough Times and Problem-Solving from the 1970s
by Tracy Dahlby
If 70s sage E.F. Schumacher has anything to teach us today, it may lie in his chronically appealing idea that optimism about the human spirit, and faith in our potential for problem-solving, can flourish even in the toughest of times.
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SOURCE: NY Times
2/2/19
The Real Legacy of the 1970s
by Michael Tomasky
Inflation was as pivotal a factor in our national crackup as Vietnam and Watergate.
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Edward Snowden vs. Robert Seldon Lady
by Tom Engelhardt
This, then, is our world: a single megapower has, since September 2001, been in a financing and construction frenzy to create the first global surveillance state; its torturers run free; its kidnappers serve time at liberty in this country and are rescued if they venture abroad; and its whistleblowers -- those who would let the rest of us know what “our” government is doing in our name -- are pilloried.
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SOURCE: Conscience of a Liberal
5-19-13
Paul Krugman: The Mythical '70s
Paul Krugman is a Princeton economist and an op-ed columnist for the New York Times.Matt O’Brien is probably right to suggest that Michael Kinsley’s problems — and those of quite a few other people, some of whom have real influence on policy — is that they’re still living in the 1970s. I do, however, resent that thing about 60-year-old men …But it’s actually even worse than Matt says. For the 1970s such people remember as a cautionary tale bears little resemblance to the 1970s that actually happened.In elite mythology, the origins of the crisis of the 70s, like the supposed origins of our current crisis, lay in excess: too much debt, too much coddling of those slovenly proles via a strong welfare state. The suffering of 1979-82 was necessary payback.None of that is remotely true.There was no deficit problem: government debt was low and stable or falling as a share of GDP during the 70s. Rising welfare rolls may have been a big political problem, but a runaway welfare state more broadly just wasn’t an issue — hey, these days right-wingers complaining about a nation of takers tend to use the low-dependency 70s as a baseline.
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