The Whole World's Watching: Peace and Social Justice Movements of the
>1960s and 1970s
>
> Review in Library Journal, Social Sciences Section
> November 15, 2001
>
> Berkeley Art Center December 2001. C. 160p., edited by Robert Schildgen.
>Photogs. LC 2001132506. ISBN 0-942744-10-1. $59.95
> pap. ISBN 0-942744-09-8. $24.95
>
> Mario Savio, the late leader of the Free Speech Movement, notes in this
>celebration of San Francisco Bay activism that the region "is one of the
>few places . . . in the United States . . . where involvement in radical
>politics is not a form of social leprosy." This collection of photographs
>and short essays (mainly three to five pages long) relates many episodes
>of the protest movement that ignited in the Bay Area and spread throughout
>the country during the Sixties and Seventies. Contributors include highly
>regarded historians Leon Litwack (presenting an overview of the era) and
>Clayborne Carson (writing on the Civil Rights movement), as well as
>several award-winning photojournalists, who provide often stark examples
>of activists in action. The most intriguing stories are first-person
>accounts by participants, including Alice Hamburg discussing the Women's
>Strike for Peace, Ruth Rosen remembering the early feminist movement,
>Donna Amador describing Latino Power, and HolLynn D'Lil recounting the
>1977 protest of disabled citizens that led to the 1990 Americans with
>Disabilities Act. The only notable omission is the Vietnam veterans who
>mounted important protests against the war. The book, which accompanies
>an exhibit at the Berkeley Art Center, is a worthy purchase for California
>public and academic libraries and for other academic and larger public
>libraries with collections in social protest and activism.
> -- Karl Helicher, Upper Merion Twp. Library, King of Prussia, PA
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