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Voice lessons
- Title
- Voice lessons / Alice Embree.
- Author
- Embree, Alice
- Publication
- Austin, TX : Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin, 2021.
- Distributed by Tower Books, an imprint of the University of Texas Press
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 22-982 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xii, 318 pages : illustrations, facsimiles; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Voice Lessons explores the rich personal and political terrain of Alice Embree, a 1960s activist and convert to the women's liberation movement of the 1970s, bringing a woman's perspective to a transformational time in US history. This riveting memoir traces the author's roots in segregated Austin and her participation in efforts to integrate the University of Texas. It follows her antiwar activism from a vigil in front of President Lyndon Johnson's ranch in 1965 to a massive protest after the shootings at Kent State in 1970. Embree's activism brought her and the Students for a Democratic Society into conflict with Frank Erwin, the powerful chairman of the UT Board of Regents, and inspired a campus free speech movement. She recounts her experiences living in New York during the tumultuous years of 1968 and 1969, including the Columbia University strike and Woodstock. She also tells about protesting at the Chicago Democratic Convention, her interactions with Yippies and poets, and her travel to Chile, Cuba, and Mexico. Embree highlights the radical roots of the women's liberation movement in Austin and the audacious women's community that challenged gender roles, fought for reproductive justice, and inspired a lifetime of activism"--
- Subject
- Embree, Alice
- Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.) > Biography
- Since 1951
- Women political activists > Texas > Austin > Biography
- Feminists > Texas > Austin > Biography
- Social movements > United States > History > 20th century
- Protest movements > United States > History > 20th century
- Counterculture > Texas > Austin > History > 20th century
- New Left > United States > History > 20th century
- Baby boom generation > Texas > Austin > Biography
- Politics and government
- Women political activists
- Texas > Politics and government > 1951-
- Texas
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-282) and index.
- Contents
- Foreword / by Julia Mickenberg -- Preface / by Don Carleton -- Introduction -- Shenandoah to Austin -- Learning to speak out : 1963-1967 -- Santiago to New York :1967-1969 -- Finding my voice : 1969-1973 -- Raising our voices : 1973-1979 -- Working eight to five 1979-2004 -- Retiree activist : 2004-2020 -- 2020 reflections.
- Call Number
- JFE 22-982
- ISBN
- 9780999731864
- 0999731866
- LCCN
- 2021931677
- OCLC
- 1201669282
- Author
- Embree, Alice, author.
- Title
- Voice lessons / Alice Embree.
- Publisher
- Austin, TX : Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin, 2021.
- Distributor
- Distributed by Tower Books, an imprint of the University of Texas Press
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-282) and index.
- Chronological Term
- Since 1951
- Sudoc No.
- Z UA380.8 EM12vo txdocs
- Research Call Number
- JFE 22-982