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The Movements of the New Left, 1950-1975

A Brief History with Documents

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  • © 2005

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Authors:
  1. Van Gosse

    1. Franklin and Marshall College, USA

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Part of the book series: The Bedford Series in History and Culture (BSHC)

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Table of contents (50 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction: A Movement of Movements

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-4
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    2. Seeds of Dissent in the 1940s and 1950s

      • Van Gosse
      Pages 4-7

    3. The Movements Take Off, 1960–1965

      • Van Gosse
      Pages 7-16

    4. The Cold War Consensus Cracks, 1965–1968

      • Van Gosse
      Pages 16-23

    5. High Tide and EBB Tide, 1969–1975

      • Van Gosse
      Pages 23-35

    6. Conclusion: The Movements Go Their Own Way

      • Van Gosse
      Pages 35-38

  3. The Documents

    1. Mattachine Society

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      Pages 39-41

    2. Coleman Young

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      Pages 41-44

    3. Jo Ann Robinson

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      Pages 44-45

    4. Rosa Parks

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      Pages 46-48

    5. Liberation

      • Van Gosse
      Pages 49-51

    6. Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy

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      Pages 52-53

    7. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

      • Van Gosse
      Pages 54-55

    8. Fair Play for Cuba Committee

      • Van Gosse
      Pages 55-56

    9. Dale Johnson

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      Pages 57-61

    10. Fannie Lou Hamer

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      Pages 61-64

    11. Tom Hayden and Students for a Democratic Society

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      Pages 65-67

    12. Betty Friedan

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      Pages 68-72

    13. Martin Luther King Jr.

      • Van Gosse
      Pages 72-75
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About this book

Movements of the New Left is a documentary history of the movements for fundamental social change and radical democracy that disrupted the United States from their emergence in the 1950s through their dispersion and institutionalization in the early 1970s. Using an inclusive definition of the New Left, Gosse tracks the development and commonalities of the civil rights and black power movements and other struggles of people of color, of the peace, antiwar, and student movements, and of feminism and gay liberation. The introduction presents a solid overview of the history of these movements, combining chronological and thematic approaches against the backdrop of Cold War liberalism. Forty-five documents follow, each with an informative headnote providing context and explanatory footnotes that help students make sense of manifestoes, testimonies, speeches, newspaper advertisements, letters, and book excerpts from the tumultuous era referred to as "the Sixties." A chronology of the New Left, questions for consideration, a selected bibliography, and an index provide further pedagogical support.

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  • Franklin and Marshall College, USA

    Van Gosse

About the author

Van Gosse teaches history at Franklin and Marshall College and is a longtime member of the Radical History Review Editorial Collective.

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