Hippie Archives
Articles and other material about Hippies from the 60s and 70s.
Stokely Charmichael’s Revolutionary Speech at Oakland Auditorium (1968)
STOKELY CARMICHAEL, American Revolutionary This is a complete transcript of Stokely Carmichael’s speech at the Oakland Auditorium February 17, 1968. The occasion was a benefit birthday party for Huey P. Newton, Minister of Defense of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. Newton is awaiting trial on charges of killing a white Oakland policeman. The speech […] Continue reading
Cannabis in Alchemical Literature
Cannabis in Alchemical Literature: Green Lion, Philosopher’s Stone Three things suffice for the work: a white smoke, which is water; a green Lion, which is the ore of Hermes, and a fetid water… The stone, known from the chapters of books, is white smoke and water. Michael Maier Atalanta Fugiens Of this self-same body, which […] Continue reading
Margo St. James Streaked the Bay to Breakers Run (1965)
IN THE ‘BAY TO BREAKERS’ I MAKE THE RECORD BOOK BUT MARGO ST. JAMES ‘STREAKS’ TO ESTABLISHING AN INSTITUTION From North Beach Leathers – Tailors to the Stars by Bill Morgan Besides Carol, the other grand dame of North Beach in those days was Margo St. James. She liked to think of herself as […] Continue reading
Negro ‘Paranoia’ (1968)
NEGRO ‘PARANOIA’ (1968) White Racism Said to Push Blacks to the Brink By JOHN LEO White racism forces the American Negro to lead a life of cultural paranoia and often pushes him over the brink into true paranoid schizophrenia, a black psychiatrist said here yesterday. Paranoia, a withdrawal from reality with delusions of persecution, is […] Continue reading
The African American Past and the American Present (1968)
The African American Past and the American Present (1968) By Vincent Harding NEGRO history suffers the same fate in the overall American story as the individual Negro’s integration Into American society. That is, small but prominent doses of Negro History can be dropped into the national saga, but these black drops should never be numerous […] Continue reading