Making history/making blintzes : how two Red Diaper babies found each other and discovered America
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Making history/making blintzes : how two Red Diaper babies found each other and discovered America
Rutgers University Press, c2018
- : cloth
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Includes index
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Making History/Making Blintzes is a chronicle of the political and personal lives of progressive activists Richard (Dick) and Miriam (Mickey) Flacks, two of the founders of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). As active members of the Civil Rights movement and the anti-Vietnam War movement in the 1960s, and leaders in today's social movements, their stories are a first-hand account of progressive American activism from the 1960s to the present.
Throughout this memoir, the couple demonstrates that their lifelong commitment to making history through social activism cannot be understood without returning to the deeply personal context of their family history-of growing up "Red Diaper babies" in 1950s New York City, using folk music as self-expression as adolescents in the 1960s, and of making blintzes for their own family through the 1970s and 1980s. As the children of immigrants and first generation Jews, Dick and Mickey crafted their own religious identity as secular Jews, created a critical space for American progressive activism through SDS, and ultimately, found themselves raising an "American" family.
Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword vii
1 Sonia Hartman 1
2 A Red Diaper Baby: Mickey's Story 12
3 Mildred Flacks 34
4 The House I Lived In: Dick's Story 54
5 Coming of Age in the Fifties 72
6 Starting out in the Sixties 96
7 Our Sixties: Blowin' in the Wind 155
8 Our Sixties: Making History Together 179
9 Our Sixties: Some Scenes from the Theater of "Revolution" 237
10 Our Sixties: 1968 and Beyond 253
11 Moving to California 309
12 A Long March? 348
13 Socialism in One City 364
14 Confessions of a Tenured Radical 395
15 Playing for Change 434
16 Some Things
We've Learned about What's Left 451
17 Trump Time 463
18 Last Words 468
Acknowledgments 477
Notes 479
Index
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