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Athletes against war : Muhammad Ali, Bill Walton, Carlos Delgado, and more / by Smith, Elliott,1976-author.(CARDINAL)822932;
Includes bibliographical references (page 31) and index."Activists take a stand. They speak out and demand change. From legendary boxer Muhammad Ali to baseball star Carlos Delgado, readers discover the pro athletes who have affected change by speaking out against war and its impact on society"--Ages 8-11Grades 4-6770LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Young adult literature.; Athletes; Anti-war demonstrations.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The hard tomorrow / by Davis, Eleanor,1983-author,illustrator.(CARDINAL)493874; Drawn & Quarterly (Firm)(CARDINAL)555608;
"Hannah is a thirty-something wife, home-health worker, and antiwar activist. Her husband, Johnny, is a stay-at-home pothead working--or 'working'--on building them a house before the winter chill sets in. They're currently living and screwing in the back of a truck, hoping for a pregnancy, which seems like it will never come. Legs in the air, for a better chance at conception, Hannah scans fertility Reddits while Johnny dreams about propagating plants--kale, tomatoes--to ensure they have sufficient sustenance should the end times come, which, given their fragile democracy strained under the weight of a carceral state and the risk of horrible war, doesn't seem so far off. Helping Hannah in her fight for the future is her best friend Gabby, a queer naturalist she idolizes and who adores her. Helping Johnny build the house is Tyler, an off-the-grid conspiracy theorist driven sick by his own cloudy notions of reality."--
Subjects: Comics (Graphic works); Dystopian comics.; Fiction.; Graphic novels.; Anti-war demonstrations; Fertility; Gender identity; House construction; Interpersonal relations; Man-woman relationships; Organic farmers; Pregnant women; Survival; Gender identity.;
Available copies: 12 / Total copies: 12
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The Hardhat Riot : Nixon, New York City, and the dawn of the white working-class revolution / by Kuhn, David Paul,author.(CARDINAL)485125;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Part one: Backdrop -- Part two: "Bloody Friday" -- Part three: Afterward and aftermath."I am seeking to rescue the poor stockinger, the Luddite cropper, the "obsolete" hand-loom weaver, the "utopian" artisan, and even the deluded . . . from the enormous condescension of posterity. Their crafts and traditions may have been dying. Their hostility to the new industrialism may have been backward-looking. Their communitarian ideals may have been fantasies. Their insurrectionary conspiracies may have been foolhardy. But they lived through these times of acute social disturbance, and we did not. Their aspirations were valid in terms of their own experience. - E. P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class They arrived in waves, in colored hard hats and worn steel-toed boots, shouldering American flags, thundering, "U-S-A. All the way," intent on confronting antiwar demonstrators on Wall Street. Police rushed to form a human chain and separate the two factions. Hippies chanted, "Peace now!" Hardhats shot back, "Love it or leave it!" The student protestors pushed forward and shouted their opposition to the "fucking war." They expected it to be a matter of words. They had been told "the police are here to protect us." Then, in the same place where George Washington was inaugurated, the construction workers charged and the police did not protect them. The hardhats plowed through thousands, swinging their fists wildly, fighting to raise American flags. Students tripped and screamed and flailed for escape. For hours, they ran for their lives "like a cattle stampede." Young people were pulled from melees by their hair. Others were found unconscious and prone in the dirty streets. By the time the police realized the scope of the riot, the mob was too large and the cops were too few. City Hall was now under siege. Two liberalisms collided that day, presaging the long Democratic civil war ahead, and revealing a rupture expanding across the American landscape, a divide that had grown so vast it seemed unbridgeable by the time elites noticed, unless one looked back and understood how it all began. An earthquake only feels like an aberration. We know otherwise, of course. It's the consequence of vast plates that move with glacial time, mere millimeters a year, yet build mountains and carve oceans. Normally, these plates pass one another with friction so minimal it doesn't register in our lives. But sometimes too much sub-terrain stress amasses and the plates get stuck, frequently where the strain has long collected-that is, a fault-line. Then the new pressure rises. The force exceeds what bonds the plates together. Blocks of crust collide and some fall. The fault-line ruptures and the land shakes. In 2016, the Democratic nominee performed worse with working-class whites than any other nominee, of either party, since the Second World War. Yet before that fateful campaign, we had arrived at a place where the party of the workingman relied most on the allegiance of educated whites, and the party of big business depended on working-class whites. Years later, even well-informed Americans still struggled to consider all he exposed-the fragility of our norms, that American culture and politics rest upon corroded depths. What revealed that corrosion, and shook American life afterward, was not detached from history. It was the consequence of a tectonic break a half-century ago. May 1970 was a tumultuous month in a tumultuous era. After Cambodia and Kent State, the antiwar movement revived and radicalized as never before. Even after impeachment, Richard Nixon recalled these weeks as some of the most traumatic of his presidency. His expansion of the war into Cambodia caused a cascade of events that brought much of the nation to the brink, and Nixon with it-until, as William Safire put it, the hardhats helped "turn the tide." Those raging most against the war were not only college students, they tended to also hale from suburban affluence. They were the educated youth who ushered in the counterculture, who believed in men by the name of Gene McCarthy, John Lindsay, and George McGovern. They were also a class apart from most soldiers over there. About three in four Vietnam veterans were blue collar whites, boys of the lower middle-class and poorer backgrounds. Vietnam, unlike any war since at least the Civil War, asked the most of those who came from less. New York was still a blue-collar city at the dawn of the 1970s. The deindustrialization of America had hit it early and hard. The consequences for the city forecasted those for America. For a time, New York staved off the worst. There was a roaring national economy, a stock market bubble, a "Second Skyscraper Age." That building renaissance promised to remake downtown. Thousands of tradesmen and laborers crowded into Lower Manhattan for the work, including building two colossal towers"--
Subjects: Riots; Anti-war demonstrations; Student protesters; Construction workers; Social conflict;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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The incredible '60s : the stormy years that changed America / by Archer, Jules,author.(CARDINAL)140185;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-255) and index.A comprehensive portrait of the 1960s that includes coverage of the era's counterculture movement, anti-war protests, and civil rights demonstrations.
Subjects: Nineteen sixties; Popular culture; Popular culture;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Because our fathers lied [sound recording] : a memoir of truth and family, from Vietnam to today / by McNamara, Craig,author.; Sellon-Wright, Keith,narrator.;
Read by Keith Sellon-Wright.Craig McNamara came of age in the political tumult and upheaval of the late 60s. While Craig McNamara would grow up to take part in anti-war demonstrations, his father, Robert McNamara, served as John F. Kennedy's Secretary of Defense and the architect of the Vietnam War. This memoir offers an intimate picture of one father and son at pivotal periods in American history.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Autobiographies.; McNamara, Craig.; McNamara, Robert S., 1916-2009; Vietnam War, 1961-1975.; Fathers and sons.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Fire in the streets / by Magoon, Kekla.(CARDINAL)485305;
In the aftermath of Dr. King's assassination in 1968, Chicago fourteen-year-old Maxie longs to join the Black Panthers, whether or not her brother Raheem, ex-boyfriend Sam, or her friends like it, and is soon caught up in the violence of anti-war and civil rights demonstrations.650L710LAccelerated Reader ARAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Fiction.; Black Panther Party; African Americans; Civil rights movements; Racism; Siblings; Racism.; Siblings.;
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The eve of destruction : how 1965 transformed America / by Patterson, James T.(CARDINAL)132374;
Includes bibliographical references and index.High expectations : America in late 1964 -- Gathering storms : politics and Vietnam in late 1964 -- LBJ : big man in a big hurry -- Out-Roosevelting Roosevelt : Johnson and the Great Society -- "Bloody Sunday" : struggles for justice in Selma -- Fork in the road : winter escalation in Vietnam -- "Maximum feasible participation" : complications on the domestic front -- A credibility gap -- The times they are a-changin : technology, music, and fights for rights in mid-1965 -- Bombshell from Saigon -- Violence in the streets : Watts and the undermining of liberalism -- Eve of destruction : the rise of unease -- From crisis to crisis : the Great Society and the challenge of government -- America at the end of 1965 -- 1966.Argues that 1965, not 1968, was the most transformative year of the 1960s, discussing attacks on civil rights demonstrators, increased African American militancy, the Watts riots, anti-war protests, and a growing national pessimism.
Subjects: Vietnam War, 1961-1975;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Self-portrait, U.S.A. by Duncan, David Douglas.(CARDINAL)145627;
The national conventions : Miami Beach and Chicago -- The national conventions : Chicago and Miami Beach."Few events in the United States have ever commanded more attention, aroused deeper passions, caused wider splits between friends, police and civilians, youth and adults, and even members of the same family, or created havoc on a grander scale amon veteran politicians--Republican and Democrat alike--than did the 1968 national conventions for the presidency in Miami Beach and Chicago. Every American has been affected by the results of the two conventions: Miami Beach with its oldtime charades of flag-and-button-encrusted delegates, its rallies, "spontaneous" demonstrations, and its high-pressure, arm-twisting backstage powerplays; Chicago with its White House-ordained candidate, its crusading challengers, anti-war demonstrators, hippies, soft black voices seldom raised in anger, and shouting white voices--profane, outraged, embattled: riot edging toward revolution"--Foreword.
Subjects: Illustrated works.; Republican National Convention 1968 : Miami Beach, Fla.); Democratic National Convention (1968 : Chicago, Ill.);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Saigon calling : London 1963-75 / by Truong, Marcelino,author,artist.(CARDINAL)703561; Homel, David,translator.(CARDINAL)738332;
"In this sequel to Such a Lovely Little War, young Marco and his family move from Saigon to London in order to escape the war following the assassination of South Vietnamese President Diem, for whom Marcelino's diplomat father was a personal interpreter. In London, his father struggles to build a new life for his children and his wife, whose bipolar spells are becoming increasingly violent. But for Marco and his siblings, swinging London is an exciting place to be: a new world of hedonists and hippies. At the same time, the news from their grandparents in Vietnam grows ever grimmer as the war intensifies and American involvement becomes increasingly muddied. Young Marco finds himself conflicted between embracing the peace-loving anti-war demonstrators and the strong, nostalgic bond he feels toward a wounded Vietnam, whose conflict is not as simple as the demonstrators make it out to be."--
Subjects: Autobiographical comics.; Graphic novels.; Comics (Graphic works); Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Truong, Marcelino; Vietnamese; Vietnam War, 1961-1975;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Kent State [videorecording] : the day the war came home / by Mucci, David.nrt; Triffo, Chris.drt; History Television.; Learning Channel (Firm); Partners in Motion (Firm); Single Spark Pictures (Firm);
MARCIVE 06/02/10Writer, Iain Maclean ; editor, Trevor Aikman.Narrator, David Mucci.Looks at the reasons for the attack on anti-Vietnam-war student demonstrators on the Kent State University campus on May 4, 1970 by National Guardsmen. Shows the build-up of the protest against the Vietnam War, and follows the stories of the four students who were killed at Kent State. Includes interviews with people who witnessed the events including a wounded student-activist, a now paralyzed student, three former National Guardsman, and a sociology professor.DVD-R.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Kent State University; Kent State University; College students; College students; Kent State Shootings, Kent, Ohio, 1970.; Vietnam War, 1961-1975;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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