Making History / Making Blintzes : : How Two Red Diaper Babies Found Each Other and Discovered America / / Mickey Flacks, Dick Flacks.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Flacks, Mickey,; Flacks, Dick,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2018]; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (512 p.) :; 37 illustrations

Making History/Making Blintzes is a chronicle of the political and personal lives of progressive activists Richard (Dick) and Miriam (Mickey) Flacks, two of the founders of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). As active members of the Civil Rights movement and the anti-Vietnam War movement in the 1960s, and leaders in today’s social movements, their stories are a first-hand account of progressive American activism from the 1960s to the present. Throughout this memoir, the couple demonstrates that their lifelong commitment to making history through social activism cannot be understood without returning to the deeply personal context of their family history—of growing up “Red Diaper babies” in 1950s New York City, using folk music as self-expression as adolescents in the 1960s, and of making blintzes for their own family through the 1970s and 1980s. As the children of immigrants and first generation Jews, Dick and Mickey crafted their own religious identity as secular Jews, created a critical space for American progressive activism through SDS, and ultimately, found themselves raising an “American” family.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- 1. Sonia Hartman -- 2. A Red Diaper Baby: Mickey’s Story -- 3. Mildred Flacks -- 4. The House I Lived In: Dick’s Story -- 5. Coming of Age in the Fifties -- 6. Starting out in the Sixties -- 7. Our Sixties: Blowin’ in the Wind -- 8. Our Sixties: Making History Together -- 9. Our Sixties: Some Scenes from the Theater of “Revolution” -- 10. Our Sixties: 1968 and Beyond -- 11. Moving to California -- 12. A Long March? -- 13. Socialism in One City -- 14. Confessions of a Tenured Radical -- 15. Playing for Change -- 16. Some Things We’ve Learned about What’s Left -- 17. Trump Time -- 18. Last Words -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS