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 raid in which Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton was killed; two homes for runaway youth in D.C.; peace demonstrators interruption of the National Christmas Tree Lighting; a follow-up to an interview printed in Vol. 1, No. 12 with draft resistance leader Arturo S. Pinosa; the environmental impact of DDT; lesbianism in America; how to roll marijuana or tobacco cigarettes; police violence against protestors during a visit by President Nixon to New York; music, movie, and book reviews; and a calendar of local events.Original version: print newspaper; DC Public Library, Special Collections, Periodicals, Quicksilver Times
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- Arts
- Black Panther Party
- Children
- Ddt (Insecticide)
- Demonstrations
- Draft Resisters
- Environmentalism
- Hampton, Fred, 1948 1969
- Institutional Care
- Lesbians
- Newspapers
- Peace Movements
- Police
- Police Ethics
- Police Shootings
- Political Activity
- Political Issues
- Radicalism
- Runaway Children
- Runaway Teenagers
- Sexual Minorities
- Smoking
- Smoking Paraphernalia
- Underground Newspapers