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Troublemaker : a memoir from the front lines of the sixties / Bill Zimmerman.

by Zimmerman, Bill, 1940-

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New York : Doubleday, c2011.

Zimmerman, Bill, 1940-

Political activists -- United States -- Biography.

Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography.

Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements.

Peace movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

Nineteen sixties.

United States -- Politics and government -- 1963-1969.

United States -- Politics and government -- 1969-1974.

United States -- Social conditions -- 1960-1980.

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452 p. : ill. 25 cm.

April 1973: snow falls thick and fast on the Badlands of South Dakota. It has been more than five weeks since protesting Sioux Indians seized their historic village of Wounded Knee, and the FBI shows no signs of abandoning its siege. When Bill Zimmerman is asked to coordinate an airlift of desperately needed food and medical supplies, he cannot refuse; flying through gunfire and a mechanical malfunction, he carries out a daring dawn raid and successfully parachutes 1,500 pounds of food into the village. The drop breaks the FBI siege, and assures an Indian victory. This was not the first or last time Bill Zimmerman put his life at risk for the greater social good. In this extraordinary memoir, Zimmerman takes us into the hearts and minds of those making the social revolution of the sixties. He writes about registering black voters in deepest, most racist Mississippi; marching with Martin Luther King Jr. in Chicago; helping to organize the 1967 march on the Pentagon; fighting the police at the 1968 Democratic convention; mobilizing scientists against the Vietnam War and the military's misuse of their discoveries; smuggling medicines to the front lines in North Vietnam; spending time in Hanoi under U.S. bombardment; and founding an international charity, Medical Aid for Indochina, to deliver humanitarian assistance. Zimmerman, who crossed paths with political organizers and activists like Abbie Hoffman, Daniel Ellsberg, César Chávez, Jane Fonda, and Tom Hayden captures a groundbreaking zeitgeist that irrevocably changed the world as we knew it.

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