They Should Have Served that Cup of Coffee: Seven Radicals Remember the '60s [Paperback]

Dick Cluster (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 089608082X | ISBN-13: 978-0896080829 | Publication Date: July 1, 1999

If the defenders of things-as-they were had agreed to serve the four Black students who staged the first lunch counter sit-in in 1960, they might have saved themselves a lot of trouble. But the trouble they got was well-deserved. In this collection, seven participants in the Civil Rights, Anti-War, and Women's Liberation Movements present personal histories of the political struggles which came to define the decade of the Sixties and created the world we live in today.

Product Details

• Paperback: 284 pages
• Publisher: South End Press (July 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 089608082X
• ISBN-13: 978-0896080829
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.7 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,646,018 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

The ambitions I can remember having were to be a writer, a teacher, someone who could speak a foreign language, and radical and/or bohemian. All this seems to have happened, one way or another. I've written history books and mystery novels, and some popular economics in what feels like a past life. I translate from Spanish, especially Cuban writing. Some years living in Havana in the '90s led me to the translation and, eventually, to a social history of Havana: what it's been like for people living there over the past five centuries, and something about why.