Authored by Dr. Jeremy Guida – 2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the “Summer of Love” when somewhere between 75,000 and 100,000 youth flooded 25 blocks in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district. Before the Summer of Love, the Haight-Ashbury was home to a small community of “hip” residents interested in art, music, theatre, […]
Posts tagged Underground Press
Tripping on Banana Peels: Rumors, Fak...
Authored by Dr. Jeremy Guida – Many authors, publishers, and readers of underground papers understood these periodicals as alternatives to what they considered mainstream news sources (what they eventually came to call the “aboveground press”: network television news, daily newspapers, national magazines). The dailies covered the war in Vietnam, racism, and youthful […]
Women In The Underground Press Part 3...
Authored by Dr. Jeremy Guida – This is the third in a series of three blog posts about women in the Underground Press. See post #1 in the series for an introduction to the topic. Liza Williams – Liza Williams began authoring a column in the Los Angeles Free Press in […]
Women In The Underground Press Part 1...
Authored by Dr. Jeremy Guida – By most accounts, the first-generation of underground papers were overwhelmingly misogynistic. These papers began publication between 1964 and 1967, just before the second-wave of feminism had fully taken hold. Even though most papers were socially progressive with regard to the war in Vietnam and racism, the […]
Remembering the Human Be-In
Authored by Dr. Jeremy Guida – On January 14, 1967, more than 20,000 hippies and participants in the counterculture gathered in San Francisco’s Golden Gate park to do little more than simply “be” together (Lee and Shalin 62). The event cemented San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury as a center of countercultural activity, setting the […]