Sixth Column
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Underground counterculture newspaper featuring radical leftist political and social news and information. Articles in this edition cover the Chicago 8 conspiracy trials, the closure of the Washington Area Free University; conflict at D.C.'s Tifereth Israel synagogue during Yom Kippur celebrations; the Committee of Returned Volunteers' concern that the Peace Corps perpetuates global disparities; information about LSD; abuses in the Montgomery County, Maryland juvenile justice system; movie, book, and music reviews; police busts of Black Panther Party free breakfast programs in New York City and Los Angeles; the dismissal of charges against eight Green Beret soldiers for killing of a Vietnamese man; a manifesto from the White Panther Party; and a review of a Avant Grade magazine's story on Pablo Picasso's erotic engravings.Original version: print newspaper; DC Public Library, Special Collections, Periodicals, Quicksilver Times
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- Arts
- Black Panther Party
- Black Power
- Chicago Seven Trial, Chicago, Ill., 1969 1970
- Civil Rights
- Committee Of Returned Volunteers
- Courts Martial And Courts Of Inquiry
- Economic Development
- History
- International Cooperation
- Judaism
- Juvenile Justice, Administration Of
- Lsd (Drug)
- Newspapers
- Peace Corps (U.S.)
- Picasso, Pablo, 1881 1973
- Police
- Police Ethics
- Political Activity
- Political Issues
- Politics
- Radicalism
- Religion
- Secret Service
- Soldiers
- Underground Newspapers
- United States
- United States. Centra Intelligence Agency
- Vietnam War, 1961 1975
- White Panther Party
- Yom Kippur
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