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35th Anniversary Memoir from a Route One Brigadonna |
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Susan MacAdams reflects on her life going back to the days when she occupied Route One in 1970--and what a life it's been.....
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BBC Radio Documentary about Judi Bari |
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BBC Radio broadcast a half-hour Judi Bari documentary in December 2004. Judi was a UM activist in the 1970's and went on to become a leader of California's Save the Redwoods movement. She died of breast cancer in 1997. Download MP3
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Donald Gaines Murray |
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In 1935, just after his graduation from Amherst College, Donald
Gaines Murray sought admission to the Maryland law school in 1935 only
to learn that it did not accept blacks. |
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Early evening, April 4— A shot rings out in the Memphis sky... |
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by Bob Simpson
I heard the loud thumping of footsteps coming up the basement stairs.
Something was very wrong. Marie appeared at the kitchen entrance,
distraught and out of breath. Martin Luther King had just been shot
dead in Memphis. It's all over the news. Come downstairs. Now. |
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Forty Years in the Fray |
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In 1998, longtime UM activist Richard J. Ochs (Dick to his friends) wrote a 91 page memoir of his 40 years in the Movement. Dick is still an activist and recently fought off a cancer invasion. In many ways, Dick represents the spirit of the 1960's at UM and how that spirit followed stayed with him up to the present day |
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Hiram Whittle |
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Hiram Whittle was the first Black undergraduate of the University of Maryland. Initially refused admission into UM's Engineering School, he became part of an NAACP lawsuit and was admitted in 1951. |
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Judi Bari Survives Character Assassination |
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Judi Bari was a UM activist in the early 1970's. She later moved to California and became a leader of the the movement to save Northern California's redwood forests. Judi survived an assassination attempt in 1991, but succumbed to breast cancer in 1995.
A scurrilous "biography" of Judi appeared in 2005. This article helps set the record straight.
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Mark Greenbaum |
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I remember these days cleary, my hobby was photography and I have numerous color
slides from the '70-'71 protests. Photos of Rene Davis and H. Rap Brown on the mall
with loud speakers encouraging us to march on the Capital and White House which of
couse we did.
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Maryland in the Days of Jim Crow |
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by Bob Simpson
YMCA Camp Letts sits at the end of a peninsula jutting out into the
Rhode River near Edgewater, Maryland. On a clear day, you can see all
the way to where the South River meets the Chesapeake Bay. The camp was
established in 1906 and has been in its present location since 1922. |
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Michael Tabor on Social Justice |
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Mike Tabor was active in UM SDS in the mid 1960's, particularly
around civil rights issues.In 2005, he was given the Paul Shnitzer
Social Justice and Ethics Award at Temple Emanuel in Kensington Md.
This is his acceptance speech where he reflects on his lifelong
commitment to the Movement. |
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My Most Memorable Anti-War Protest |
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On the weekend of Nixon's 1969 inaugural ceremonies, anti-war
protestors gathered to make their feelings clear. Craig Simpson was
among those present. |
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Paranoia strikes deep.... |
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by SDSGuy
Remember when we all used to wonder who the agent was? The spy in our
midst? The infiltrator who was spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt?
The provocateur who was spinning wild schemes of gratuitous violence
and plotting revolutionary crime sprees? |
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Parren Mitchell |
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Former Congressional Representive Parren Mitchell was originally denied entrance to UM's graduate school because of the school's Jim Crow admissions policy. With the help of the NAACP, he successfully sued and graduated with his MA in 1952. He visited the campus in the early 1970's to investigate the racial discrimination that still persisted and told assembled students, faculty and staff about his own struggles against UM's plantation mentality. |
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Sandwiches, Recruiters and the Shah of Iran |
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by Ron Jacobs
While I was at the University of Maryland during the 1974-1975 academic
year one of the projects among the leftist counterculture community was
supporting a group of students who wanted to start a food co-op on
campus. These folks were constantly being threatened by an
administration that had sold its soul to big business years before. In
this particular instance, the co-op workers had been arrested twice for
selling food in front of the student union without a permit. |
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The Pentagon March (1967) |
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Bob Simpson remembers the March on the Pentagon in October of 1967.
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Vivian Simpson |
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Vivian Simpson protested the harsh gender discrimination and sexual harassement at UM during the supposedly "liberated" 1920's.
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Will Hetzel: UM's Radical Basketball Player |
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Will Hetzel was a star basketball player for the University of Maryland Terrapins from 1966-1971. He was definitely not your stereotypical "jock". He had friends in SDS and was well acquainted with the counter-culture. He also wrote articles critical of the NCAA for the Diamondback which did not endear him to the UM sports establishment. |
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Memoirs & Bios 