The Freedom Riders were activists who made invaluable contributions to the progress of the civil rights movement in America by sitting illegally in segregated public transport.
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Posts Tagged: 1960s
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Friends with a Murderer
23 year old Charles Schmid, known as ‘The Pied Piper of Tucson’ murdered three teenage girls, Alleen Rowe, and sisters Gretchen and Wendy Fritz in the deserts surrounding Tucson, Arizona in 1964-65.
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Anne Briggs
Anne Briggs, ballad singer, cult figure of ‘60‘s and ‘70s folk scene, was a teenage runaway.
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LA Cool
Palm trees and high waters–blend into so-cool LA mid-1960s style, featuring dashes of skinhead, mod and ivy league looks.
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Age of Adolescence
“The world of the adolescent is totally interlaced within itself and incapable of freeing itself…it whirls, rolls, and engulfs what it is allowed to engulf.”
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Folk Freaks
“You don’t have to be an accomplished musician, you could play for three years and listen to records and become fairly good.
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Aramco Brats in the 60s and 70s
Aramco Brats, the expatriate children of employees of Saudi Aramco oil company, (which was estimated in 2005 to be the world’s most valuable company) are a “third culture” group — think military brats, missionary kids — defined by their bi-cultural identity formed by living a not quite suburban American lifestyle in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, a province whose lands are more than half the Rub’ al Khali (Empty Quarter) desert — sand and wind.
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Appalachian Teen Clogging
Appalachian teen competitive clogging troupe, Blue Ridge Mountain Dancers, clogging, flat-footing, foot-stomping, buck dancing, or jigging it in someone’s living room, 1964.
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Live at Woodstock
Peace and love, man. What set out to be a 3 day music festival on a dairy farm in upstate New York turned into a defining event in rock and roll history.
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Baby Bobby
Bobby Fischer was just 13-years-old when he defeated American chess master Donald Byrne in 1956, marking the beginning of an extraordinary but difficult chess career.