Witness to the Revolution: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul | 
1. A well researched book about the civil rights uprising in America in the year between 1969-1970.
2. Pride & resentment. The ones who truly believe theirs is the only way & the ones who cling onto the past.
3. Reading, sleeping then more reading.
4. Hardly! We‘ve got thunderstorms, heat & humidity here. Yay. At least the rain is sorely needed.
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#AyUpAugust #Day9 #IPredictARiot In the year that this book covers, August 1969 to August 1970, there were a few riots, a lot of protests and a ton of arrests with a few deaths as well. People don‘t realise just how close America came to a full revolution, there was a lot of people very unhappy about Vietnam, about civil rights & the corruption of high up government officials. People power made a lot of changes happen in those days.
#NuYear #day15 #America I really enjoyed this non-fiction book about the political & social upheavals in America between Aug1969-Aug1970. After the shooting of students at Kent State, the My Lai massacre & marches against the Vietnam War, the country came so close to an overthrow of government. Add in the civil rights movement & the Feminist movement & the government had a lot of tinder just looking for a match.Change came not just for the U.S.✌️
#TuneIntoNovember #day12 #DontWannaFight This awesome non-fiction book about the year between August 1969 - August 1970 in America when the anti-Vietnam protests were huge, the draft was a huge issue and the government Came very close to being overthrown in a revolution when the hippies, vets, radicals, feminists & civil rights movements combined and became very vocal in the push for change. Great read and highly recommended.✌️☮️💕💜💙💚💛❤️
#AndItsAugust #day7 #ItsHistory This is an amazing non fiction book that came out at the end of last year. It chronicles the year in America between Aug1969 & Aug1970, when the mass protests & revolutionaries guiding them almost achieved the unthinkable,overthrowing the current government. After the draft & ongoing war in Vietnam,the Kent State shootings,the civil rights violations in not only the south but all over the country, feelings ran high.
#AprilBookShowers #day21 #Subtitles This book has the best subtitle ever: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul. Love it!
#LyricalApril #day9 #Renegades This weighty book about the state of American politics in the year between Aug1969 & Aug1970 is full of real life renegades.People like Bill Ayers & Bernardine Dohrm of The Weather Underground,Daniel Ellsberg,a former Defence Dept employee who released the Pentagon papers & so many more including Black Panther leaders & the organizers of the many protests on college campuses after the My Lai massacre in Vietnam.
#riotgrams #day8 #blackhistory I don't read much non fiction,and a lot of what constitutes Black History has far more to do with America, but this book has a lot about the Black Panther movement. That being said, I do watch a lot of docos about famous black activists, artists & history. I loved What Happened Miss Simone, 20 Feet From Stardom, Freedom Riders & Through A Lens Darkly. Plus the many docos about Dr King, Malcolm X & the Civil War.
#readjanuary #day25 #slowread When it comes to fiction I can fly through big novels with ease, but give me a nonfiction book & my pace slows to a glacial crawl. There's been some nonfiction that have been easy reads, mostly biographies and a few medical books,but usually it can take me 4 or 5 goes at it to finish. My brain tends to pick up random pieces of info & stores it, which makes me great at trivia nights but crap at retaining large amounts.
#readjanuary #day16 #inspiredbymartinlutherkingjr Dr King isn't as well known and revered here in Aus like he is in the US, but even we know his "I have a dream" speech & his civil rights activism in the 60s.This book is about the cultural & political revolutions that were happening in America, specifically the year between Aug1969 & Aug1970. With chapters about the Weathermen & the Black Panther movement, it's definitely got inspiration from him.
Having to put this bad boy down, unfortunately I've become a member of the #litsymigraineclub tonight. Pretty sure it's coming from my neck plus eye strain👀 See all you wonderful people tomorrow. Night night.🌝
David Harris, Stanford student, draft resistance organiser, talking about black voter registrations in Mississippi in the mid 60s.
Pairing my next read, about the radicals and the counterculture in the year between August1969 & August1970, with the Pure 60s then the Pure 70s playlists on Spotify.This era is electric, the feeling that the youth could change the world is so exciting, and oh so relevant with the current world upheavals. I was born 7 months after this period in history, but if I was a young adult then, I would've been proudly standing up with a flower in my hair.
Today's #BookMail is this fascinating nonfiction book about the year between August1969 & August1970 when America was on the verge of revolution. The country was full of protests, anger at the Vietnam war, the My Lai massacre, and the death of students at the hands of the National Guard. It was also the year of Woodstock, of the Black Panthers & bombings across the country. Cannot wait to dive into this. #SmileItsBookmas🎄
pickIncredible! This oral history of the turbulent times of the late 60's-early 70's is jam packed with the voices of those who experienced it: feminists, vets, Freedom Riders, Black Panthers, members of SDS, Weather Underground, SNCC, FBI, counterculturists and more. It's self exploratory but also, self-critical. I can't praise it enough. 5🌟 ☮❤️✊🏼resist (There will be some table-flipping moments tho when you read what the gov did to its citizens)
Battling a bit of a cold, so I'm hunkering down with some Brunswick Stew (from a can and surprisingly good), Vanilla Coke, and this awesome book. #ReadAndEat
This book has me all fired up ✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼Listening to the Simon & Garfunkel Pandora station, cuddling with my #kittenlitten , and enjoying the fact that I didn't get dragged out to a work dinner with my husband tonight. I'm all about digging into this book right now (and staying in bed 😂)
Like reading an autobiography (minus the year and the Columbia part, but you get it.) 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼
I was an active member of SDS when I was in college a few years ago, and I came to idolize the era of the 60's and 70's and the radical revolutionaries. I'm so excited for this book because the first quote of the first chapter is from the Port Huron Statement. This is exactly the book I need right now in the current political climate. (Bonus: the best coffee in town & a little toddler-free reading time)
Reading for the weekend: It's research for my NaNo novel, along with a thesis on male nurses during Vietnam and a book about the Weather Underground. Plus, watching a PBS documentary about the Black Panthers. Why yes, I *am* writing historical fiction with a gay romance sub-plot.
