The Portable Sixties Reader Book

	Preface
	The Sixties: A Chronology
Pt. 1	Struggling to be Free: The Civil Rights Movement
	"The Dangerous Road Before Martin Luther King"	6
	"Letter from a Birmingham Jail"	24
	from Rosa Parks: My Story	41
	from Coming of Age in Mississippi	45
	"Where Is the Voice Coming From?"	51
	"The March"	57
	"The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll"	63
	"Ballad of Birmingham"	65
	"For the Union Dead"	67
	"The Ballot or the Bullet"	70
	"The Civil Rights Movement: What Good Was It?"	80
	from Dreamer	86
Pt. 2	End it! And End it Now! The Anti-Vietnam War Movement
	"Original Child Bomb"	108
	"What's Happening in America (1966)"	119
	"Life at War"	124
	"Overheard over S.E. Asia"	127
	"The Teeth Mother Naked at Last"	128
	"Let Sleeping Dogs Lie"	137
	"How to Maintain a Peaceful Demonstration"	141
	from The Armies of the Night: "A Confrontation by the River"	155
	from "On the Perimeter"	159
	from Dispatches	168
	"The Man I Killed"	171
	from Born on the Fourth of July	176
	"Attack the Water"	179
	"Tunnels"	181
	"Hanoi Hannah"	183
	"'You and I Are Disappearing'"	184
	"2527th Birthday of the Buddha"	185
	"Prisoners"	185
	"Nude Interrogation"	186
	"Facing It"	187
Pt. 3	Why Can We Not Begin New? The Free Speech Movement and Beyond
	"Battle of Berkeley Talking Blues"	196
	"Put My Name Down"	197
	"Hey Mr. Newsman"	199
	"There's a Man Taking Names"	200
	"I Walked Out in Berkeley"	200
	from The Free Speech Movement	202
	"The Rules of the Game ... When You're Busted"	205
	"Wanted: Hip Cops"	207
	"Demonstration or Spectacle As Example, As Communication - or How to Make a March/Spectacle"	208
	from Hell's Angels: "The Dope Cabala and a Wall of Fire"	212
	"Testament for My Students, 1968-1969"	221
	"Smoking Dope with Thomas Pynchon: A Sixties Memoir"	228
	"The Police Band"	238
	"Che's Last Letter"	241
	"The Coming of the Purple Better One"	243
	"Yeats in the Gas"	253
Pt. 4	"I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die": The Counterculture Movement
	"I Feel Like I'm Fixin'-to-Die Rag"	261
	"Talking Non-Violence"	263
	"Superbird"	264
	"Janis"	265
	"THE little PHENOMENA"	266
	from Ringolevio	270
	"A Minstrel Show or: Civil Rights in a Cracker Barrel"	276
	"Psychedelic Rock Posters: History, Ideas, and Art"	291
	"The Rolling Stones - At Play in the Apocalypse"	306
	"New Speedway Boogie"	315
	"Because My Father Always Said He Was the Only Indian Who Saw Jimi Hendrix Play 'The Star-Spangled Banner' at Woodstock"	317
Pt. 5	Adrift in the Age of Aquarius: Drugs and the Movement Into Inner Space
	"Turning On the World"	331
	"The Holidays at Millbrook - 1966"	343
	from The Teachings of Don Juan	350
	from House Made of Dawn	362
	"Letters from Mexico"	367
	"Pills and Shit: The Drug Scene"	377
	from The Basketball Diaries	388
Pt. 6	Living in the Revolution: The Beats and Some Other Literary Movements at the Edge
	"The Hustings"	397
	Letters to Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, and Peter Orlovsky, 1961-1962	400
	"Kral Majales"	404
	"Revolutionary Letters #1, 3, 5, 8"	408
	"Poke Hole Fishing After the March"	412
	from Ghost Tantras	414
	"Grandfather Was Queer, Too"	420
	"Visitor: Jack Kerouac in Old Saybrook"	421
	"The Cleveland Wrecking Yard"	429
	from Notes of a Dirty Old Man	435
Pt. 7	Out of the Fire: The Black Arts Movement and the Reshaping of Black Consciousness
	"The Black Arts Movement"	446
	from Think Black 1965-1967	454
	"Malcolm Spoke/who listened?"	456
	"The Idea of Ancestry"	458
	"Conjugal Visits"	460
	"A Dance for Ma Rainey"	462
	"My Poem"	464
	"It Is Deep"	466
	"Numbers, Letters"	469
	"Eldridge Cleaver - Writer"	471
	from Soul on Ice	478
	"Song"	484
	"Why They Are in Europe?"	486
	["We Knew Our Loneliness and Told It"]	486
Pt. 8	With Our Arms Upraised: The Women's Movement and the Sexual Revolution
	from The Feminine Mystique	493
	from Sexual Politics	504
	"Poem"	512
	"Lady Lazarus"	513
	"The Abortion"	518
	"The Addict"	520
	"The Ballad of the Lonely Masturbator"	522
	"About Marriage"	523
	"The Mutes"	525
	"Belly Dancer"	527
	"Ringless"	528
	from How I Became Hettie Jones	531
	from SCUM Manifesto	536
	"A New Egalitarian Life Style"	539
Pt. 9	In Defense of the Earth: The Environmental Movement
	from Silent Spring	547
	from Wildlife in America	549
	"Revolutionary Letter #16"	559
	"What You Should Know to Be a Poet"	560
	"Revolution in the Revolution in the Revolution"	561
	"Smokey the Bear Sutra"	562
	"Preface To Hermit Poems, The Bath"	565
	["I Know a Man's Supposed to Have His Hair Cut Short"]	567
	["Apparently Wasps"]	568
	["I Burn Up the Deer in My Body"]	569
	["Whenever I Make a New Poem"]	569
	["Step Out onto the Planet"]	570
	"The Song Mt. Tamalpais Sings"	571
	"To the Unseeable Animal"	572
	"The Serpents of Paradise"	574
	from The Way to Rainy Mountain	581
Pt. 10	Ten Elegies for the Sixties
	for Ernest Hemingway
	"Hemingway"	589
	for Marilyn Monroe
	from Ghost Tantras, #39	590
	for John F. Kennedy
	"Kennedy Blues"	591
	for Sylvia Plath
	from The Dream Songs, #172	593
	for Malcolm X
	"The Sun Came"	594
	for Martin Luther King, Jr.
	"Assassination"	595
	for Robert F. Kennedy
	"Assassination Raga"	596
	for Neal Cassady
	"On Neal's Ashes"	600
	for Janis Joplin
	"Elegy"	601
	for Jack Kerouac
	"Kerouac, 1922-1969"	604
	Selected Bibliography	607
	Acknowledgments	615
	Alphabetical List of Authors and Titles	623