The Port Huron Statement: An Anniversary Discussion with Tom Hayden, Robert Cohen and Martha Prescod Norman Noonan
Saturday, Nov. 19, 1:30 p.m., Presentation Pavilion (N.E 3rd Street and 1st Avenue)
Author(s) and Guest(s)
Tom Hayden
The Port Huron Statement: The Vision Call of the 1960s Revolution (Public Affairs, $14.99) refers to the 1962 publication, which called for a direct participatory democracy in which Americans would have greater say over the decisions affecting their lives. Its publication preceded the phenomena of the counter-culture, hippies, and back-to-the-land. Tom Hayden, who drafted the Port Huron Statement when he was 21 years old, is a radical social and political activist, best known for his involvement in the animal rights, anti-war and civil rights movements of the 1960s. He co-founded the Students for a Democratic Society and was a co-founder of the Economic Research and Action Project. Hayden was elected to the California State Assembly (1982) and has authored several books, including The Last Gospel of the Earth, The Whole World Was Watching, and Irish Hunger.
Robert Cohen
Robert Cohen teaches social studies and history at New York University and chairs the department of Teaching and Learning in NYU's Steinhardt School of Education. A Berkeley graduate, he is the author of Freedom's Orator: Mario Savio and the Radical Legacy of the 1960s (University of Illinois Press, $34.95), about the leader of Berkeley's Free Speech Movement, the largest and most disruptive student rebellion in American history. He is also the author of When the Old Left Was Young, and the co-editor of The Free Speech Movement: Reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s .
Martha Prescod Norman Noonan
Martha Prescod Norman Noonan was on the front lines of the Civil Rights Movement as a community organizer, activist and a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). She is the is the co-editor of Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC (University of Illinois Press, $34.95), in which fifty-two women from all walks of life share their courageous personal stories of sit-ins, voter registration campaigns, freedom rides, the 1963 March on Washington, the Mississippi Freedom Summe, Black Power, and antiwar activism.
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Miami Book Fair International * Miami Dade College
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132
Presentation Pavilion (N.E 3rd Street and 1st Avenue)
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