The portable sixties reader

The Sixties: A Chronology

Pt. 1. Struggling to be Free: The Civil Rights Movement

"The Dangerous Road Before Martin Luther King" / James Baldwin

"Letter from a Birmingham Jail" / Martin Luther King, Jr.

from Rosa Parks: My Story / Rosa Parks

from Coming of Age in Mississippi / Anne Moody

"Where Is the Voice Coming From?" / Eudora Welty

"The March" / Calvin Trillin

"The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" / Bob Dylan

"Ballad of Birmingham" / Dudley Randall

"For the Union Dead" / Robert Lowell

"The Ballot or the Bullet" / Malcolm X

"The Civil Rights Movement: What Good Was It?" / Alice Walker

from Dreamer / Charles Johnson

Pt. 2. End it! And End it Now! The Anti-Vietnam War Movement

"Original Child Bomb" / Thomas Merton

"What's Happening in America (1966)" / Susan Sontag

"Life at War"

"Overheard over S.E. Asia" / Denise Levertov

"The Teeth Mother Naked at Last" / Robert Bly

"Let Sleeping Dogs Lie" / David Lance Goines

"How to Maintain a Peaceful Demonstration" / Ann Charters

from The Armies of the Night: "A Confrontation by the River" / Norman Mailer

from "On the Perimeter" / Robert Chatain

from Dispatches / Michael Herr

"The Man I Killed" / Tim O'Brien

from Born on the Fourth of July / Ron Kovic

"Attack the Water" / Janice Mirikitani

"Tunnels"

"Hanoi Hannah"

"'You and I Are Disappearing'"

"2527th Birthday of the Buddha"

"Prisoners"

"Nude Interrogation"

"Facing It" / Yusef Komunyakaa

Pt. 3. Why Can We Not Begin New? The Free Speech Movement and Beyond

"Battle of Berkeley Talking Blues" / Dave Mandel

"Put My Name Down" / Lee Felsenstein

"Hey Mr. Newsman" / Richard Kampf

"There's a Man Taking Names" / Dan Paik

"I Walked Out in Berkeley" /

Richard Schmorleitz and Dan Paik

from The Free Speech Movement

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"The Rules of the Game ... When You're Busted"

"Wanted: Hip Cops" / David Lance Goines

"Demonstration or Spectacle As Example, As Communication - or How to Make a March/Spectacle" / Allen Ginsberg

from Hell's Angels: "The Dope Cabala and a Wall of Fire" / Hunter Thompson

"Testament for My Students, 1968-1969" / Kay Boyle

"Smoking Dope with Thomas Pynchon: A Sixties Memoir" / Andrew Gordon

"The Police Band" / Donald Barthelme

"Che's Last Letter" / Abbie Hoffman

"The Coming of the Purple Better One" / William S. Burroughs

"Yeats in the Gas" / Edward Sanders

Pt. 4. "I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die": The Counterculture Movement

"I Feel Like I'm Fixin'-to-Die Rag"

"Talking Non-Violence"

"Superbird"

"Janis" / Country Joe McDonald

"THE little PHENOMENA" / Douglas Blazek

from Ringolevio / Emmett Grogan

"A Minstrel Show or: Civil Rights in a Cracker Barrel" /

R. G. Davis

"Psychedelic Rock Posters: History, Ideas, and Art" / Sally Tomlinson

"The Rolling Stones - At Play in the Apocalypse" / Michael Lydon

"New Speedway Boogie" / Robert Hunter

"Because My Father Always Said He Was the Only Indian Who Saw Jimi Hendrix Play 'The Star-Spangled Banner' at Woodstock" / Sherman Alexie

Pt. 5. Adrift in the Age of Aquarius: Drugs and the Movement Into Inner Space

"Turning On the World" / Timothy Leary

"The Holidays at Millbrook - 1966" / Diane di Prima

from The Teachings of Don Juan / Carlos Castaneda

from House Made of Dawn / N. Scott Momaday

"Letters from Mexico" / Ken Kesey

"Pills and Shit: The Drug Scene" / Lenny Bruce

from The Basketball Diaries / Jim Carroll

Pt. 6. Living in the Revolution: The Beats and Some Other Literary Movements at the Edge

"The Hustings" / Charles Olson

Letters to Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, and Peter Orlovsky, 1961-1962 / Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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"Kral Majales" / Allen Ginsberg

"Revolutionary Letters #1, 3, 5, 8" / Diane di Prima

"Poke Hole Fishing After the March" / Gary Snyder

from Ghost Tantras / Michael McClure

"Grandfather Was Queer, Too" / Bob Kaufman

"Visitor: Jack Kerouac in Old Saybrook" / John Clellon Holmes

"The Cleveland Wrecking Yard" / Richard Brautigan

from Notes of a Dirty Old Man / Charles Bukowski

Pt. 7. Out of the Fire: The Black Arts Movement and the Reshaping of Black Consciousness

"The Black Arts Movement" / Larry Neal

from Think Black 1965-1967 / Don L. Lee

"Malcolm Spoke/who listened?" / Haki R. Madhubuti

"The Idea of Ancestry" / Etheridge Knight

"Conjugal Visits"

"A Dance for Ma Rainey" / Al Young

"My Poem" / Nikki Giovanni

"It Is Deep" / Carolyn M. Rodgers

"Numbers, Letters" / Amiri Baraka

"Eldridge Cleaver - Writer" / Ishmael Reed

from Soul on Ice /

Eldridge Cleaver

"Song"

"Why They Are in Europe?"

["We Knew Our Loneliness and Told It"] / Allen Polite

Pt. 8. With Our Arms Upraised: The Women's Movement and the Sexual Revolution

from The Feminine Mystique / Betty Friedan

from Sexual Politics / Kate Millett

"Poem" / Muriel Rukeyser

"Lady Lazarus" / Sylvia Plath

"The Abortion"

"The Addict"

"The Ballad of the Lonely Masturbator" / Anne Sexton

"About Marriage"

"The Mutes" / Denise Levertov

"Belly Dancer"

"Ringless" / Diane Wakoski

from How I Became Hettie Jones / Hettie Jones

from SCUM Manifesto / Valerie Solanas

"A New Egalitarian Life Style" / Gloria Steinem

Pt. 9. In Defense of the Earth: The Environmental Movement

from Silent Spring / Rachel Carson

from Wildlife in America / Peter Matthiessen

"Revolutionary Letter #16" / Diane di Prima

"What You Should Know to Be a Poet"

"Revolution in the Revolution in the Revolution"

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"Smokey the Bear Sutra" / Gary Snyder

"Preface To Hermit Poems, The Bath"

["I Know a Man's Supposed to Have His Hair Cut Short"]

["Apparently Wasps"]

["I Burn Up the Deer in My Body"]

["Whenever I Make a New Poem"]

["Step Out onto the Planet"]

"The Song Mt. Tamalpais Sings" / Lew Welch

"To the Unseeable Animal" / Wendell Berry

"The Serpents of Paradise" / Edward Abbey

from The Way to Rainy Mountain / N. Scott Momaday

Pt. 10. Ten Elegies for the Sixties

for Ernest Hemingway

"Hemingway" / Archibald MacLeish

for Marilyn Monroe

from Ghost Tantras, #39 / Michael McClure

for John F. Kennedy

"Kennedy Blues" / Eric Von Schmidt

for Sylvia Plath

from The Dream Songs, #172 / John Berryman

for Malcolm X

"The Sun Came" / Etheridge Knight

for Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Assassination" / Don L. Lee

for Robert F. Kennedy

"Assassination Raga" / Lawrence Ferlinghetti

for Neal Cassady

"On Neal's Ashes" / Allen Ginsberg

for Janis Joplin

"Elegy" / Marilyn Hacker

for Jack Kerouac

"Kerouac, 1922-1969" / The Harvard Crimson.