Virtual Author Talk: Paul Lauter

Join Professor Emeritus Paul Lauter as he discusses his new book, Our Sixties: An Activist's History.

In Our Sixties, Lauter uses his wide-ranging experience as an activist and writer to examine the values, exploits, victories, implications, and sometimes the failings, of the sixties "Movement". He writes about a range of movement activities - 1964 Mississippi freedom schools; Students for a Democratic Society (SDS); the Morgan community school in Washington, DC, (which he headed); a variety of antiwar, antidraft actions; the New University Conference, a radical group of faculty and graduate students; The Feminist Press (which he helped found); and the United States Servicemen's Fund, an organization supporting antiwar GIs - all from the perspective of a full time participant. Lauter got fired, got busted, got published, and even got tenure. He gives the details in his book. 

Bio

PAUL LAUTER is A. K. & G. M. Smith Professor of Literature Emeritus at Trinity College (Hartford). He was president of the American Studies Association and has won many awards from the academic associations in which he has worked, including, most recently, the Modern Language Association's Francis March Award for Distinguished Service to the Profession of English Studies and the Working-Class Studies Association's Lifetime Achievement Award.

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