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"Whitey on the Moon" was released as the ninth track on Small Talk at 125th and Lenox, [4] which was recorded late in the summer of 1970 in a studio belonging to Atlantic Records. [5] Scott-Heron speaks the poem [6] alongside a bongo drum accompaniment of a sort common in street poetry, and used by contemporaneous artists such as The Last Poets ...
The Summer of Love was a major social phenomenon that occurred in San Francisco during the summer of 1967. As many as 100,000 people, mostly young people, hippies , beatniks , and 1960s counterculture figures, converged in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district and Golden Gate Park .
The Human Be-In took its name from a chance remark by the artist Michael Bowen made at the Love Pageant Rally. [6] The playful name combined humanist values with the scores of sit-ins that had been reforming college and university practices and eroding the vestiges of entrenched segregation, starting with the lunch counter sit-ins of 1960 in Greensboro, North Carolina, and Nashville, Tennessee.
On a hot summer day in 1963, more than 200,000 demonstrators calling for civil rights joined Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
John Allyn McAlpin Berryman (born John Allyn Smith, Jr.; October 25, 1914 – January 7, 1972) was an American poet and scholar.He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and is considered a key figure in the "confessional" school of poetry.
The American Sociological Association says that between 1883 and 1941, 3,265 Black people (men and women) were subjected to lynchings. Yet, few stories about the public killings made their way to ...
Ferlinghetti took a distinctly populist approach to poetry, emphasizing throughout his work "that art should be accessible to all people, not just a handful of highly educated intellectuals." [ 21 ] Larry Smith , an American author and editor, stated that Ferlinghetti is a poet "of the people engaged conscientiously in the creation of new ...
A demonstrator offers a flower to military police at an anti-Vietnam War protest at The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, 21 October 1967. Flower power was a slogan used during the late 1960s and early 1970s as a symbol of passive resistance and nonviolence. [1] It is rooted in the opposition movement to the Vietnam War. [2]