Frank Gormlie

Broschiertes Buch

The May 1970 Rebellion, Volume 2

Beschreibung

Volume 2 continues - in narrative form -- the record of the May 1970 explosion of student protests and the National Student Strike, the greatest student strike in American history --all in response to both President Richard Nixon's invasion of Cambodia and the subsequent government repression. The rebellion brought the nation's higher education system to a halt and created an unprecedented crisis for the Establishment. Millions of college and university students joined protests, 1400 colleges and universities were affected, 650 campuses were shut down, 8 deaths were attributed to the rebellion, 1300 injured or wounded, 4,500 arrests in the nearly one hundred clashes between students and law enforcement, and the National Guard was deployed 2 dozen times in 16 states. Drawn from original sources and archives of student newspapers and strike newsletters, the book unearths the burial for over 50 years of one of the greatest unreported stories of the century. The murders/ killings of 4 students at Kent State University were just the tip of the iceberg, as The May 1970 Rebellion shows. Much more came down and this book gives light to the voices and acts of America's college students. And it forever changes the way the history of the sixties and seventies will be viewed. The story of May 1970 can now be more fully appreciated and understood as the record of the true high-water mark of the anti-Vietnam War movement.

Autor

Frank Gormlie was a student activist during May 1970 at the University of California San Diego. After graduation he founded an "underground newspaper" called the Ocean Beach People's Rag - or OB Rag -- named after the San Diego community of Ocean Beach. Art Kunkin, the publisher of the Los Angeles Free Press, called the OB Rag the best progressive community newspaper in the country. Frank continued as a grassroots community activist and was involved in saving the local ecology, in democratic urban planning, working in solidarity with the Chicano and Mexican-American power movements in the 1970s, supporting people's struggles in Central American and South African, and against apartheid, the draft and nuclear power in the 1980s. In addition, he published and edited a small progressive magazine called The Whole Damn Pie Shop. Frank worked for a series of non-profits, including managing a community medical clinic, and then went to law school in the mid-1990s. Upon graduation in 1996, Frank had a 20-year practice in criminal and civil law in San Diego. Retiring from the law, Frank and his partner Patty Jones founded an online version of the former community newspaper, the OB Rag in 2007, which he still edited as late as 2024. Frank has one daughter, Michelle Seguin, who lives in Oregon with her husband Forrest and their two children, Skylar and Ronan.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Frank Gormlie
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 536g
• ISBN-13: 9798990401723
• Artikelnr.: 71936461