Insider Histories of the Vietnam Era Underground Press, Part 2

Ken Wachsberger, Ken Wachsberger

• Publisher: Michigan State University Press
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN:
  9781611860313
• eBook ISBN:
  9781628951677
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Social History
• Index: History

This enlightening book offers a collection of histories of underground papers from the Vietnam Era as written and told by key staff members of the time. Their stories, building on those presented in Part 1, represent a wide range of publications: countercultural, gay, lesbian, feminist, Puerto Rican, Native American, Black, socialist, Southern consciousness, prisoners' rights, New Age, rank-and-file, military, and more. Wachsberger notes that the underground press not only produced a few well-known papers but also was truly national and diverse in scope. His goal is to capture the essence of "the countercultural community." This book will be a fundamental resource for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of a dramatic era in U.S. history, as well as offering a younger readership a glimpse into a generation of idealists who rose up to challenge and improve government and society.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• Soldiers Against the Vietnam War: Aboveground and The Ally
• Fast Times in the Motor City: The First Ten Years of the Fifth Estate, 1965–1975
• Fag Rag: The Most Loathsome Publication in the English Language
• The Kudzu: Birth and Death in Underground Mississippi
• The Wong Truth Conspiracy: A History of Madison Alternative Journalism
• New Age: Worker Organizing from the Bottom Up
• Ain't No Party Like the One We Got: The Young Lords Party and Palante
• Let a Hundred Flowers Blossom, Let a Hundred Schools of Thought Contend: The Story of Hundred Flowers
• The Furies: Goddesses of Vengeance
• At This End of the Oregon Trail: The Eugene AUGUR, 1969–1974
• Karl and Groucho's Marxist Dance: The Columbus Free Press and Its Predecessors in the Columbus Underground
• “Raising the Consciousness of the People”: The Black Panther Intercommunal News Service, 1967–1980
• Both Sides Now Remembered: Or, The Once and Future Journal
• It Aint Me Babe: From Feminist Radicals to Radical Feminists
• About the Authors
• Index