Liberation (magazine)
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Liberation was a 20th-century pacifist journal published 1956 through 1977 in the United States. A bimonthly and later a monthly, the magazine identified in the 1960s with the New Left.[1]
History
Liberation was founded, published, and edited by David Dellinger, Bayard Rustin, Sidney Lens, Roy Finch, and A. J. Muste[2] out of New York City[3][4] and Glen Gardner, New Jersey.[2] Muste brought funding from the War Resisters League.[3][5] For Rustin, the magazine was a major commitment of time and energy, raising money and meeting every week with Muste.[6] He wrote to Martin Luther King Jr.,[7] who later wrote for the magazine. The June 1963 issue contained the full publication of King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail", the first version with that title.
Liberation: An Independent Monthly published its first issue in April 1956.[8]
The editorial positions of the magazine were somewhat comparable to those of
The magazine supported
Liberation occasionally ran
A poem by Louis Ginsberg, father of Allen Ginsberg, was published in the magazine.[14] Children's book author Vera Williams made the artwork for many of the covers.[15]
By 1977 the magazine was edited by Jan Edwards and Michael Nill out of Cambridge, Massachusetts. It ceased publication not long after the departure of Dellinger.
Seeds of Liberation, a collection of Liberation articles, was edited by Paul Goodman and published in 1965.[16][17]
Legacy
Liberation, together with Dissent, anticipated changes in the 1950s American political left, such as the early civil rights movement and nonviolent protest.[18]
References
- ISBN 978-1-60486-041-2.
- ^ Against the Current(112). Retrieved April 17, 2016.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-226-81127-7.
- ISBN 0520914465. Retrieved April 17, 2016.
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- ISBN 978-0-275-97268-4.
- ^ John D'Emilio, Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin, New York: Free Press, 2003, p. 216.
- ^ Stewart Burns, Daybreak of Freedom: The Montgomery Bus Boycott, University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
- ^ Hunt 2006, p. 113.
- ^ Staughton Lynd, Andrej Grubacic, Wobblies and Zapatistas: Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical History, PM Press, 2008, p. 36.
- ^ Avrich 1995, p. 230.
- ^ "April 9, 2007". The Nation. Retrieved 2011-05-24.
- ^ Nigel Young, An Infantile Disorder?: The Crisis and Decline of the New Left, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1977.
- ^ Howard Brick, Age of Contradiction: American Thought and Culture in the 1960s, Twayne, 1998.
- ^ Allen Ginsberg (ed. Bill Morgan), The Letters of Allen Ginsberg, Da Capo Press, 2008, p. 243.
- ^ "Vera Baker Williams Interview by Connie Bostic". BMCS. Retrieved 2019-08-16.
- ^ Chase 1965.
- ^ Kopkind 1965.
- ^ Unger 1974, pp. 16–17.
Bibliography
- OCLC 68772773.
- Chase, Edward T. (November 12, 1965). "Rev. of Seeds of Liberation". ISSN 0010-3330– via Gale Biography in Context.
- Hunt, Andrew E. (2006). David Dellinger: The Life and Times of a Nonviolent Revolutionary. New York: NYU Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-3638-8.
- Kopkind, Andrew (March 20, 1965). "The Politics of Avoiding Politics (Rev. of Seeds of Liberation)". ISSN 0028-6583.
- Unger, Irwin (1974). The Movement: A History of the American New Left, 1959-1972. New York: Harper and Row. ISBN 978-0-06-046726-5.
- Wagstaff, Thomas (1974). "Liberation". In Conlin, Joseph R. (ed.). The American Radical Press, 1880–1960. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. pp. 681–688. ISBN 0-8371-6625-X.