Generation on Fire

Voices of Protest from the 1960s, an Oral History

Jeff Kisseloff

• Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
• Year: 2020
• eBook ISBN: 9780813138466
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: History

"An invigorating collection of fifteen testimonials from counter-culturists, conscientious objectors, and artists who came of age" during the '60s ( Publishers Weekly).
 
Many of the freedoms and rights Americans enjoy today are the direct result of those who defied the established order during the Civil Rights Era. It was an era that challenged both mainstream and elite American notions of how politics and society should function. In Generation on Fire, oral historian Jeff Kisseloff provides an eclectic and personal account of the political and social activity of the decade.
 
Among other things, the book offers firsthand accounts of what it was like to face a mob's wrath in the segregated South and to survive the jungles of Vietnam. It takes readers inside the courtroom of the Chicago Eight and into a communal household in Vermont. From the stage at Woodstock to the playing fields of the NFL and finally to a fateful confrontation at Kent State, Generation on Fire brings the '60s alive again.
 
This collection of never-before published interviews illuminates the ingrained social and cultural obstacles facing those working for change as well as the courage and shortcomings of those who defied "acceptable" conventions and mores. Sometimes tragic, sometimes hilarious, the stories in this volume celebrate the passion, courage, and independent thinking that led a generation to believe change for the better was possible.

Index

Abernathy, Rev. Ralph, 24, 52

ACLU, 186

Agte, Barbara, 247, 258

Ali, Muhammad, 210

American Medical Association, 168

American Psychiatric Association, 190–192

Armstrong, Paul, 200, 201

Baez, Joan, 245

Barbee, William, 15, 16, 31

Barnett, Ross, 40

Barry, Jan, 118

Barthol, Bruce, 200, 202

Basho, Robbie, 201

Battle of the Horseshoe, 127

Berg, Peter, 137–151, 156, 161

in Army, 142–143

Diggers, founding the, 145

and ecology, 148–151

and Planet Drum, 138, 149–151

in San Francisco, 142, 143–148

San Francisco Mime Troupe, 143–145 See also Diggers, the

Berkeley. See University of California at Berkeley

Berrigan, Rev. Daniel, 4, 100–117

antinuclear movement, 115–117

Catonsville Nine, 111–113

at Cornell, 109–110

Lamont Prize for poetry, winner of, 103

in Latin America, 108–109

Plowshares movement, involvement with, 115–117

in prison, 115, 117

The Trial of the Catonsville Nine, 114

underground, 113–115

at Union Seminary, 115

Berrigan, Rev. Philip, 4, 100–103, 105–106, 108, 112–115

death of, 103

in prison, 114

Bevel, James, 18

Black Bear Ranch, 148–149, 152, 158–166

Black Panther Party, 82

Bloom, Marshall, 232, 234–235, 239–240

Boston University, 230, 232

Box, The (Kisseloff), 2

Brandeis University, 170–171

Brokaw, Tom, 1

Bromberg, David, 201

Brook Farm, 225

Bruce, Lenny, 69, 78, 205

Byrds, The, 201

Carlos, John, 210

Carmichael, Stokely, 17, 44, 190

Carter, James Earl, 96, 133

Cassady, Neal, 138

Catholic Worker, 107

Catonsville Nine, 100, 103, 111–113

See also Berrigan, Rev. Daniel

Charlatans, the, 153, 201

Charters, Sam, 203...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Introduction
• Bernard Lafayette Freedom Rider
• Bob Zellner The Traitor
• Gloria Richardson Dandridge The Militant
• Paul Krassner The Realist
• Lee Weiner The Revolutionary
• Daniel Berrigan Peace Preacher
• David Cline The Vet
• Peter Berg The Digger
• Elsa Marley Skylark The Artist
• Marilyn Salzman Webb The Feminist
• Frank Kameny The Pioneer
• Barry Melton The Guitarist
• David Meggyesy The Linebacker
• Verandah Porche The Queen of Poesie
• Doris Krause and Barry Levine Allison’s Story
• Thanks
• For Further Reading, Viewing, and Listening
• Index