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019 _a(OCoLC)1013948899
019 _a(OCoLC)979753706
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024 7 _a10.9783/9780812203516
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9780812203516
035 _a(DE-B1597)449188
035 _a(OCoLC)794702352
040 _aDE-B1597
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072 7 _aSOC002000
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082 0 4 _a305.260973
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aSanjek, Roger
_eautore
245 1 0 _aGray Panthers /
_cRoger Sanjek.
264 1 _aPhiladelphia :
_bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,
_c[2012]
264 4 _c©2009
300 _a1 online resource (320 p.) :
_b22 illus.
336 _atext
_btxt
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAbbreviations --
_tPreface --
_tChapter 1: The Political Is Personal --
_tChapter 2: The Road to Denver (1970-72) --
_tChapter 3: The Road to Chicago (1972-75) --
_tChapter 4: The Gray Panthers in Berkeley, California (1973-85) --
_tChapter 5: The Gray Panthers in New York City (1972-85) --
_tChapter 6: The Road to Washington (1976-85) --
_tChapter 7: Loss and Continuity (1986-95) --
_tChapter 8: Reorganizing for a New Century (1996-2007) --
_tChapter 9: The Gray Panther Legacy --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aIn 1970, a sixty-five-year-old Philadelphian named Maggie Kuhn began vocally opposing the notion of mandatory retirement. Taking inspiration from the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War movements, Kuhn and her cohorts created an activist organization that quickly gained momentum as the Gray Panthers. After receiving national publicity for her efforts-she even appeared on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson-she gained thousands of supporters, young and old. Their cause expanded to include universal health care, nursing home reform, affordable and accessible housing, defense of Social Security, and elimination of nuclear weapons.Gray Panthers traces the roots of Maggie Kuhn's social justice agenda to her years as a YWCA and Presbyterian Church staff member. It tells the nearly forty-year story of the intergenerational grassroots movement that Kuhn founded and its scores of local groups. During the 1980s, more than one hundred chapters were tackling local and national issues. By the 1990s the ranks of older members were thinning and most young members had departed, many to pursue careers in public service. But despite its challenges, including Kuhn's death in 1995, the movement continues today.Roger Sanjek examines Gray Panther activism over four decades. Here the inner workings and dynamics of the movement emerge: the development of network leadership, local projects and tactics, conflict with the national office, and the intergenerational political ties that made the group unique among contemporary activist groups. Part ethnography, part history, part memoir, Gray Panthers draws on archives and interviews as well as the author's thirty years of personal involvement. With the impending retirement of the baby boomers, Sanjek's book will surely inform the debates and discussions to follow: on retirement, health care, and many other aspects of aging in a society that has long valued youth above all.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022)
650 0 _aAgeism
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aOlder people
_zUnited States.
650 4 _aFolklore.
650 7 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General.
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653 _aAmerican History.
653 _aAmerican Studies.
653 _aAnthropology.
653 _aFolklore.
653 _aLinguistics.
653 _aPolitical Science.
653 _aPublic Policy.
653 _aSociology.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.9783/9780812203516
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812203516
856 4 2 _3Cover
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