William's canvas :) by William Feng

William's canvas :) by William Feng https://padlet.com/kfeng2020/vuh50qp3866q Made with a curious mind en-us 2017-11-29 13:44:37 UTC 2018-09-28 04:09:09 UTC hello@padlet.com Thesis Question kfeng2020 https://padlet.com/kfeng2020/vuh50qp3866q/wish/211848785 What role did Cold War paranoia about Communism play on the civil right movement?]]> 2017-11-30 14:13:52 UTC https://padlet.com/kfeng2020/vuh50qp3866q/wish/211848785 "Anything loathsome was Communism" kfeng2020 https://padlet.com/kfeng2020/vuh50qp3866q/wish/212127179
The Culture of the Cold War by Stephen J. Whitfield (Secondary source)

"The struggle for civil rights, which became conspicuous in the fifties, aroused the suspicion of those who inferred froth evidence that Communism was loathsome the conclusion that anything loathsome was Communism" (p21).]]> 2017-12-01 01:41:33 UTC https://padlet.com/kfeng2020/vuh50qp3866q/wish/212127179 So, what were "loathsome" at that time? kfeng2020 https://padlet.com/kfeng2020/vuh50qp3866q/wish/212128104 2017-12-01 01:48:47 UTC https://padlet.com/kfeng2020/vuh50qp3866q/wish/212128104 Minority group & Equality advocate kfeng2020 https://padlet.com/kfeng2020/vuh50qp3866q/wish/212128992 (Primary Source)
"If someone insists that there is discrimination against Negroes in this country, or that there is inequality of wealth, there is every reason to believe that person is a Communist." (Albert Canwell) ]]> 2017-12-01 01:56:22 UTC https://padlet.com/kfeng2020/vuh50qp3866q/wish/212128992 The F.B.I.’s Black Phantom Menace kfeng2020 https://padlet.com/kfeng2020/vuh50qp3866q/wish/212133094 --Cointelpro operations against black activists
--F.B.I. spied on Martin Luther King Jr.
--Fake bombing conspiracy in 1969
--J. Edgar Hoover ordered the agency to “disrupt, misdirect, discredit or otherwise neutralize” what he called “black nationalist hate-type organizations.”]]> 2017-12-01 02:31:30 UTC https://padlet.com/kfeng2020/vuh50qp3866q/wish/212133094 Martin Luther King Jr. kfeng2020 https://padlet.com/kfeng2020/vuh50qp3866q/wish/212134209 2017-12-01 02:42:08 UTC https://padlet.com/kfeng2020/vuh50qp3866q/wish/212134209 FBI's analysis on King kfeng2020 https://padlet.com/kfeng2020/vuh50qp3866q/wish/212134818 A “whole-hearted” communist who followed a “Marxist-Leninist line”]]> 2017-12-01 02:47:32 UTC https://padlet.com/kfeng2020/vuh50qp3866q/wish/212134818 FBI files (1968) kfeng2020 https://padlet.com/kfeng2020/vuh50qp3866q/wish/212135188 (Primary source)]]> 2017-12-01 02:50:49 UTC https://padlet.com/kfeng2020/vuh50qp3866q/wish/212135188 King's defense kfeng2020 https://padlet.com/kfeng2020/vuh50qp3866q/wish/212139170 2017-12-01 03:27:59 UTC https://padlet.com/kfeng2020/vuh50qp3866q/wish/212139170 King's comment distancing himself from communists kfeng2020 https://padlet.com/kfeng2020/vuh50qp3866q/wish/212139358 (Primary Source)
King told adviser Bayard Rustin in May 1965:
“There are things I wanted to say renouncing communism in theory, but they would not go along with it. We wanted to say that it was an alien philosophy contrary to us, but they wouldn’t go along with it.”]]> 2017-12-01 03:30:05 UTC https://padlet.com/kfeng2020/vuh50qp3866q/wish/212139358 As a minister... kfeng2020 https://padlet.com/kfeng2020/vuh50qp3866q/wish/212139716 The Culture of the Cold War by Stephen J. Whitfield (Secondary source)

"To include the word 'Christian' in the name of the organization was also to demonstrate that, though the SCLC was consecrated to civil rights, it was not Communist-inspired." (p22)]]> 2017-12-01 03:34:02 UTC https://padlet.com/kfeng2020/vuh50qp3866q/wish/212139716 kfeng2020 https://padlet.com/kfeng2020/vuh50qp3866q/wish/212140018 The newly released FBI document described King as “a whole-hearted Marxist who has studied it (Marxism), believes in it and agrees with it, but because of his being a minister of religion, does not dare to espouse it publicly.”]]> 2017-12-01 03:37:23 UTC https://padlet.com/kfeng2020/vuh50qp3866q/wish/212140018 --Black Nationalist Extremist/ Hate group? --Black Freedom movement? kfeng2020 https://padlet.com/kfeng2020/vuh50qp3866q/wish/212252695 2017-12-01 13:51:52 UTC https://padlet.com/kfeng2020/vuh50qp3866q/wish/212252695 Hélder Câmara Quote kfeng2020 https://padlet.com/kfeng2020/vuh50qp3866q/wish/212273626 “When I feed the poor, they call me a saint, but when I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me a communist."]]> 2017-12-01 14:34:07 UTC https://padlet.com/kfeng2020/vuh50qp3866q/wish/212273626 Inequality of wealth kfeng2020 https://padlet.com/kfeng2020/vuh50qp3866q/wish/212274371 2017-12-01 14:35:23 UTC https://padlet.com/kfeng2020/vuh50qp3866q/wish/212274371 Black Panther Party kfeng2020 https://padlet.com/kfeng2020/vuh50qp3866q/wish/212697804 J. Edgar Hoover called the party "the greatest threat to the internal security of the country."]]> 2017-12-04 03:13:59 UTC https://padlet.com/kfeng2020/vuh50qp3866q/wish/212697804 Non-mainstream & Counterculture kfeng2020 https://padlet.com/kfeng2020/vuh50qp3866q/wish/212706699 2017-12-04 04:46:25 UTC https://padlet.com/kfeng2020/vuh50qp3866q/wish/212706699 Hippies kfeng2020 https://padlet.com/kfeng2020/vuh50qp3866q/wish/212707056 2017-12-04 04:49:53 UTC https://padlet.com/kfeng2020/vuh50qp3866q/wish/212707056 Beatniks kfeng2020 https://padlet.com/kfeng2020/vuh50qp3866q/wish/212709579 2017-12-04 05:13:46 UTC https://padlet.com/kfeng2020/vuh50qp3866q/wish/212709579 They are so weird! kfeng2020 https://padlet.com/kfeng2020/vuh50qp3866q/wish/212710429 In 1982, Ginsberg published a summary of "the ease ntial effects" of the Beat Generation:

Spiritual liberation, sexual "revolution" or "liberation," i.e., gay liberation, somewhat catalyzing women's liberation, black liberation, Gray Panther activism.
Liberation of the world from censorship.
Demystification and/or decriminalization of cannabis and other drugs.
The evolution of rhythm and blues into rock and roll as a high art form, as evidenced by the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, and other popular musicians influenced in the later fifties and sixties by Beat generation poets' and writers' works.
The spread of ecological consciousness, emphasized early by Gary Snyder and Michael McClure, the notion of a "Fresh Planet."
Opposition to the military-industrial machine civilization, as emphasized in writings of Burroughs, Huncke, Ginsberg, and Kerouac.
Attention to what Kerouac called (after Spengler) a "second religiousness" developing within an advanced civilization.
Return to an appreciation of idiosyncrasy vs. state regimentation.
Respect for land and indigenous peoples and creatures, as proclaimed by Kerouac in his slogan from On the Road: "The Earth is an Indian thing."

]]> 2017-12-04 05:19:13 UTC https://padlet.com/kfeng2020/vuh50qp3866q/wish/212710429 kfeng2020 https://padlet.com/kfeng2020/vuh50qp3866q/wish/212711390 Hippies commonly took up communal or cooperative living arrangements.]]> 2017-12-04 05:26:22 UTC https://padlet.com/kfeng2020/vuh50qp3866q/wish/212711390 Used by the Communist party? Civil Rights Movement was a foreign Communist plot? kfeng2020 https://padlet.com/kfeng2020/vuh50qp3866q/wish/212712227 A Racial Program for the Twentieth Century (occasionally A Radical Program for the Twentieth Century) was a hoax that first gained public notoriety on June 7, 1957, during a debate on the Civil Rights Act of 1957, when Rep. Thomas Abernethy of Mississippi read a reputed quotation from it into the Congressional Record:
"We must realize that our party's most powerful weapon is racial tensions. By propounding into the consciousness of the dark races that for centuries they have been oppressed by whites, we can mold them to the program of the Communist Party. In America we will aim for subtle victory. While inflaming the Negro minority against the whites, we will endeavor to instill in the whites a guilt complex for their exploitation of the Negroes. We will aid the Negroes to rise in prominence in every walk of life, in the professions and in the world of sports and entertainment. With this prestige, the Negro will be able to intermarry with the whites and begin a process which will deliver America to our cause."]]> 2017-12-04 05:36:26 UTC https://padlet.com/kfeng2020/vuh50qp3866q/wish/212712227