Washington Free Press: Vol. 2, No. 29
This issue of Washington Free Press features a powerful opinion piece on race relations in the wake of Dr. Martin Luther King’s assassination, a report on the police presence in D.C., reviews of Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh and Bob Dylan’s John Wesley Harding, reports on student protests, “Advice to the Draft Resister,” and more.
From our 2016 exhibition Realize Your Desires, of which this work was a part: “Following the landmark Supreme Court decision of 1966 which allowed a more tolerant legal climate for publishers, the ‘Underground Press’ emerged as a site for radical commentary and critique in the US, progressing a number of social movements and shifting the cultural landscape at large. Usually published as weeklies – often in large editions – these publications provided a vibrant space for revolutionary ideas which played out on all fronts of politics and culture, addressing head-on a host of issues including the anti-war movement, black power movement, women’s liberation, gay rights, sexual liberation, and drug culture.”