Subject Guides
Summer of Love Exhibit: Social movements of 1967
Social movements were a defining feature of 1967 as African-Americans, women and members of the LGBTQ community fought for equality and justice. Below you will find videos, books and links to resources that support 1960s social movement research.
African-American Civil Rights
African-American Civil Rights: Then and now
1967
The Civil Rights Movement took a radical turn in 1967, led by activist group the Black Panther Party. As thousands flocked to San Francisco for a summer of love, African Americans continued to fight hate and racial injustice across the country.
2017
Many of the issues that sparked the Civil Rights Movement are still relevant today. Issues like institutional racism and police violence against black people fueled the formation of the Black Lives Matter movement. The rights of immigrants and refugees are also being challenged , most recently with the 2017 signing of Executive Order 13769, also known as the Muslim travel ban.
REVOLUTION '67 focuses on the explosive urban rebellion in Newark, New Jersey, in July 1967, to reveal the long-standing racial, economic, and political forces which generated inner city poverty and perpetuate it today.
The full documentary is available for viewing at Academic Video Online for members of the Binghamton University community.
Black Panther by
An examination of the Black Panther Party's official newspaper and the influential words of leaders Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale, Eldridge Cleaver, and others using new politics and black militant literature to reach an audience.
Call Number: Fine Arts NC1850.D68 B53 2007Publication Date: 2007- Black Politics - White Power byPublication Date: 2000“Yohuru Williams' study of black politics in New Haven culminating in the arrival of the Panthers argues that the increasing militancy in the black community there was motivated not by abstractions of black cultural integrity but by the continuing frustrations the leadership suffered in its dealings with the city's white liberal establishment. White Power is an important contribution to a discovery of the complexities of racial politics during the angry late sixties and early seventies.” – Dust Jacket
- The Black American and the Press byCall Number: Bartle Library -- E185.615 .B53Publication Date: 1968)
- The Black Power revolt : a collection of essays byCall Number: Bartle Library Stacks - E185.615 .B3Publication Date: 1968A compilation of essays on black power and social science in America spanning from 1619 to 1967, including writings by influential black leaders Frederick Douglass, Stokely Carmichael, and Malcolm X, as well as some first-time published authors.
- Rethinking the Black Freedom Movement byISBN: 9780415826129Publication Date: 2015-11-30“Yohuru Williams has synthesized the complex history of this period into a clear and compelling narrative. Considering both the Civil Rights and Black Power movements as distinct but overlapping elements of the Black Freedom struggle, Williams looks at the impact of the struggle for Black civil rights on housing, transportation, education, labor, voting rights, culture, and more, and places the activism of the 1950s and 60s within the context of a much longer tradition reaching from Reconstruction to the present day.” - Dust Jacket
- The Return of Nat Turner byCall Number: Bartle Library -- E169.12 .S84 1992ISBN: 0820313637Publication Date: 1992-03-01“In The Return of Nat Turner, primarily a cultural study of sixties America, Albert E. Stone presents a comprehensive history of the various representations of the violent or rebellious slave in American culture and examines the Nat Turner rebellion as both historical fact and fiction.” - Dust Jacket
- African American History: Major SpeechesFrom BlackPast.org's online reference center, these speeches date from 1789 to the present.
- National Museum of African American History and Culture Database of CollectionExplore over 37,000 materials indexed and described by the Smithsonian.
- Say It Plain, Say It Loud: A Century of Great African American SpeechesPublic speech making has played a powerful role in the long struggle by African Americans for equal rights. This collection, for the ear and the eye, highlights speeches by an eclectic mix of black leaders. Their impassioned, eloquent words continue to affect the ideas of a nation and the direction of history.
- Exploring the Black Alternative PressPresented by the New York Public Library: Doc Chat Episode 14: Exploring the Black Alternative Press of the 1960s and 1970s. In Episode 14, NYPL's Julie Golia and Amaka Okechukwu, professor of sociology at George Mason University, analyze excerpts from Black alternative periodicals of the 1960s and 1970s and discuss the historical context in which they were written, published, and circulated.
Women's Rights
Women's Rights: Then and now
1967
Women stormed through the 1960s as part of the feminist movement, advocating equal rights, sexual liberation and sisterhood. 1967 was part of the second wave of feminism, whereas the first wave focused more on suffrage. Women challenged the conventionalities of the patriarchy and demanded control over their own bodies, families and careers.
2017
Fifty years later, women continue to fight for fair treatment and equal compensation in the workplace, healthcare and reproductive rights, and against sexualizing female bodies in film, advertisements and other media. Intersectional feminism has received increasing attention, connecting how women are not only oppressed by their gender, but additionally by their race, religion, sexual orientation and class.
- Impossible to Hold byISBN: 9780814799093“The collection's sixteen original essays move beyond conventional discussions of hippie chicks and weatherwomen to examine the diverse lives of women who helped to shape religion, sports, literature, and music, among other aspects of the cultural hodgepodge known as the sixties.” - Dust Jacket
Power up: Female Pop Art by Publication Date: 2011-02-28“Despite the frequent mockery by Pop artists of the Abstract Expressionists' machismo and swagger, the best-known artists of the Pop era (as art history has defined it) were men. Power Up explores a generation of female artists working in the Pop art milieu, whose concerns offered a more overt critique of consumerism and gender issues than their male counterparts.” -Dust Jacket
Motherhood Reconceived by “Bringing to life the work of a variety of feminist writers and theorists, among them Jane Alpert, Mary Daly, Susan Griffin, Adrienne Rich, and Dorothy Dinnerstein, Umansky situates feminist discourses of motherhood within the social and political contexts of the 1960s. Charting an increasingly favorable view of motherhood among feminists from the late 1960s through the 1980s, Umansky reveals how African American feminists sought to redefine black nationalist discourses of motherhood, a reworking subsequently adopted by white radical and socialist feminists seeking to broaden the racial base of their movement.” - Dust Jacket
Loose Change by “This is a compelling story of the experiences of three young women who attended the University of California at Berkeley and became caught up in the tumultuous changes of the Sixties. Sara Davidson follows the three—Susie, Tasha, and Sara herself—from their first meeting in 1962, through the events that "radicalized" them in unexpected ways in the decade after the years in Berkeley. Susie navigates through the Free Speech Movement and the early women's movement in Berkeley, and Tasha enters the trendy New York art and society scene. Sara, a journalist, travels the country reporting on the stories of the sixties.” - Dust Jacket
The Sixties at 40 by “Based on recent interviews, this unique sixties book brings together the voices of the Left leaders who spawned the sixties movements. Many remain activists today, and experience and the passage of time allow them to transcend nostalgia to form more realistic perspectives on past, present, and future.” - Dust Jacket
SCUM Manifesto by Written by the woman who shot Andy Warhol, SCUM Manifesto “”is impossible to dismiss as the mere rantings of a lesbian lunatic. In fact, the work has proved prescient, not only as a radical feminist analysis light years ahead of its time - predicting artificial insemination, ATMs, a feminist uprising against underrepresentation in the arts - but also as a stunning testament to the rage of an abused and destitute woman.” - Dust Jacket
Valerie Solanas by “This book is the first biography about Solanas, including original interviews with family, friends (and enemies), and numerous living Warhol associates. It reveals surprising details about her life: the children nearly no one knew she had, her drive for control over her own writing and copyright, and her elusive personal and professional relationships.” - Dust Jacket
Feminism and Pop Culture by “Author and cofounder of Bitch magazine Andi Zeisler traces the impact of feminism on pop culture (and vice versa) from the 1940s to the present and beyond. With a comprehensive overview of the intertwining relationship between women and pop culture, this book is an ideal introduction to discussing feminism and daily life.” - Dust Jacket
Those Girls by “Those Girls is the first book to focus exclusively on struggles to define the ‘single girl’ character in TV and film during a transformative period in American society. Lehman has scoured a wide range of source materials… to demonstrate how controversial female characters pitted fears of societal breakdown against the growing momentum of the women’s rights movement.” - Dust Jacket
The Necessary Blankness by ISBN: 0252005198“Looks at the continuing failure of American writers to portray women as independent or even adequate human beings, citing especially the works of Roth, Updike, Oakes, and Plath.” - Dust Jacket
- Institute for Women's Policy ResearchIWPR publishes its research in formats ranging from short fact sheets to longer form research reports. The Institute publishes on topics addressing the policy needs of women, including pay equity, retirement security, family leave, paid sick days, and employment.
- League of Women Voters in Broome and Tioga CountiesFor a guide to local officials.
- Women's March
The Binghamton University Libraries is documenting and collecting items from the Saturday, January 21, 2017 Women’s March on Binghamton as well as any other march that women from Binghamton and the surrounding areas may have participated in.
If you attended a march and would like to participate by contributing a photo of your poster, or a photo capturing your experience of the day (which can include a photo of you holding your poster), fill out this form: https://binghamton.libwizard.com/f/womensmarch
LGBTQ Rights
LGBTQ Rights
1967
San Francisco boomed as an epicenter for the LGBTQ community in the 1960s. Although the city’s gay population was increasing, people still faced heavy social and legal oppression, even violence, based on their sexual orientation.
2017
The LGBTQ community still faces discrimination in our modern society. Some of the current issues impacting the community are same-sex marriage laws, violence against transgender people, poverty, and equal access to healthcare. In recent years, the North Carolina “Bathroom Bill” has sparked a national debate on whether trans people should be allowed to use the bathroom that corresponds to the gender they identify with, or the gender they were assigned at birth.
A Saving Remnant by “This dual biography shares the stories of Deming, a feminist, journalist, activist, and out lesbian, and McReynolds, the first openly gay man to run for president. Author Martin Duberman ‘reveals a vital historical milieu of activism, radical ideas, and coming to terms with homosexuality when the gay rights movement was still in its nascent stages.’ - Dust Jacket
Generation on Fire by “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.” - Dust Jacket
Queer (In)Justice by “Queer (In)Justice is a searing examination of queer experiences—as suspects, defendants, prisoners, and survivors of crime. The authors unpack queer criminal archetypes—like ‘gleeful gay killers,’ ‘lethal lesbians,’ ‘disease spreaders,’ and ‘deceptive gender benders’—to illustrate the punishment of queer expression, regardless of whether a crime was ever committed.” - Dust Jacket
After Marriage Equality by Explores crucial and wide-ranging social, political, and legal issues confronting the LGBT movement, including the impact of marriage equality on political activism and mobilization, antidiscrimination laws, transgender rights, LGBT elders, parenting laws and policies, religious liberty, sexual autonomy, and gender and race differences.
Black LGBT Health in the United States by Call Number: Science RA564.9.S49 B53 2017“Contributors to this collection intimately understand the associations between health and intersectional anti-Black racism, heterosexism, homonegativity, biphobia, transphobia, and social class. This collection fills a gap in current scholarship by providing information about an array of health issues like cancer, juvenile incarceration, and depression that affect all subpopulations of Black LGBT people, especially Black bisexual-identified women, Black bisexual-identified men, and Black transgender men.” - Dust Jacket
The Gay Revolution by “The Gay Revolution begins in the 1950s, when gays and lesbians were criminals, psychiatrists saw them as mentally ill, churches saw them as sinners, and society victimized them with hatred. Against this dark backdrop, a few brave people began to fight back, paving the way for the revolutionary changes of the 1960s and beyond. Faderman discusses the protests in the 1960s, the counter reaction of the 1970s and early eighties, the decimated but united community during the AIDS epidemic, and the current hurdles for the right to marriage equality.” - Dust Jacket
Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement by “Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement provides a short, accessible overview of an important and transformational struggle for social change, highlighting key individuals and events, influential groups and networks, strong alliances and coalitions, difficult challenges and obstacles, major successes and failures, and the movement’s lasting effects on the country.” - Dust Jacket
Before Stonewall by Illuminates the lives of the courageous individuals involved in the early struggle for gay and lesbian civil rights in the United States.
Growing up Before Stonewall by “This book tells the stories of 11 American gay men who tried to make sense of their identities in the years before the modern gay movement began. In their own words, these men recollect fascinating accounts of what it was like to negotiate their desires within a social and psychological context in which homosexuality was marginalized. The editors carefully situate the life stories in U.S. culture before Stonewall and skillfully raise the issues and problems in presenting such stories.” - Dust Jacke
Understanding and Teaching U. S. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History by “Though largely neglected in classrooms, LGBT history can provide both a fuller understanding of U.S. history and contextualization for the modern world. This is the first book designed for university and high school teachers who want to integrate queer history into the standard curriculum.” - Dust Jacket
- Archives of Sexuality & Gender: LGBTQ History and CulturePrimary sources for the historical study of sex, sexuality, and gender. With material dating back to the sixteenth century,you can examine how sexual norms have changed over time, health and hygiene, the development of sex education, the rise of sexology, changing gender roles, social movements and activism, erotica, and many other interesting topical areas.
- LGBT Source+Provides abstracting and indexing for more than 130 LGBT-specific core periodicals and over 290 LGBT-specific core books and reference works.
