Word: movements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most of the crowd in SDS from '64 to '65 decided we needed to leave the campuses and focus on the interracial movement of the poor. In the summer of '65 when we were working with organizing Blacks and the Civil Rights Movement, I realized I wasn't a very good organizer. I wasn't patient enough...
...decided to write and be a mediator for the movement. I was inspired by James Agee's book, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. I had won the Harvard Detur prize in my freshman year and that had been the prize...
Eventually, I ended up in California. The organizing projects were not working out that well. I felt a need to get back in the movement. I was working for an undergraduate paper. I was a free-lance agitator for two years...
...wonderful place to roost. I never thought about a career because I thought the movement was going to be my life. When it crashed and burned, I was devastated. By '69 there were close to 100,000 members. The more unpopular the war became, the more unpopular the movement became. The movement was losing content and skidding...
...loss of many of my oldest connections. The willing forces were getting stupider. There was no spirit of the movement. There was no place for any intellectualism in the movement. Many were becoming very spiritual. Many were going straight in a sense [going back to traditional jobs...