Spring-Fall 2018 www.thewha.org Vol. XXXIV, Nos. 1-2 WORLD HISTORY BULLETIN Advancing scholarship and teaching within a trans-national, trans-regional, and trans-cultural perspective. THE LONG GLOBAL SIXTIES Police line up to confront students in the 5th Arrondissement of Paris. In this issue: Introduction: The Whole World What Vietnam Did for is Moving: 1968 and the Long Jakarta, 1968: The Party’s Over Susan Sontag in 1968 08 Global Sixties 10 14 The Romanian Rejection of the 1968 Warsaw Pact Intervention From Sharpeville to Tlatelolco The Hemispheric Conference to 18 in Czechoslovakia and Its 20 and Beyond 24 End the War in Vietnam Consequences Silent Vietnam: Revolutionary Marching for Our World: Local “Objectivity is a Farce”: The Chile in Solidarity with the Activism for Global Solidarity in Great Speckled Bird and 30 People of Vietnam 34 the Great Speckled Bird 38 Guinea-Bissau Reclaiming International GI and Veteran Resistance A Global Perspective of the Cold Women’s Day: The Women’s to the War in Vietnam: The War: A Multimedia Approach to Issues of the Great Speckled Problems of Remembering and 42 46 50 a World History Topic Bird, 1969-1976 Forgetting World History Bulletin 2 World History Bulletin • Vol. XXXIV, Nos. 1-2 TABLE OF CONTENTS 4 Welcome from the Editor in Chief 5 From the Executive Director 6 Letter from the President 8 Introduction: The Whole World is Moving: 1968 and the Long Global Sixties Ian Christopher Fletcher, Georgia State University 10 Jakarta, 1968: The Party’s Over Michael G. Vann, Sacramento State University 14 What Vietnam Did for Susan Sontag in 1968 Karín Aguilar-San Juan, Macalester College 16 Twelve Women’s Memoirs of the Long Global Sixties 18 The Romanian Rejection of the 1968 Warsaw Pact Intervention in Czechoslovakia and Its Consequences Mihai Manea, Bucharest, Romania 20 From Sharpeville to Tlatelolco and Beyond: Apartheid South Africa, Authoritarian Mexico, and Transnational Activism around Sports in the Global Sixties Zac Peterson, Georgia State University 23 Ten Documentary Films about the Long Global Sixties 24 The Hemispheric Conference to End the War in Vietnam Christopher Powell, Norquest College 29 Political Poster Art of the Long Global Sixties 30 Silent Vietnam: Revolutionary Chile in Solidarity with the People of Vietnam, 1964-1973 Juan Pablo Valenzuela, Kennesaw State University 34 Marching for Our World: Local Activism for Global Solidarity in the Great Speckled Bird Emily Hunt, University of West Georgia 38 “Objectivity is a Farce”: The Great Speckled Bird, Underground Press Journalism, and the Liberation Struggle in Guinea-Bissau, 1969-1975 Carrie L. Whitney and Ian Christopher Fletcher, Georgia State University 42 Reclaiming International Women’s Day: The Women’s Issues of the Great Speckled Bird, 1969-1976 Megan Lane Neary, Georgia State University 46 GI and Veteran Resistance to the War in Vietnam: The Problems of Remembering and Forgetting Jerry Lembcke, College of the Holy Cross 50 2017 World History Association Teaching Prize A Global Perspective of the Cold War: A Multimedia Approach to a World History Topic Patrick Crawford, Texas Academy of Biomedical Sciences 3 World History Bulletin | LETTER FROM THE EDITORIAL TEAM letter from the editorial team- world history bulletin Greetings from the new editorial team of the World History Bulletin. Effective Fall 2018, I have taken on the responsibility of Editor in Chief and am leading the effort to produce the two issues for the 2019 volume. This change in editorial leadership from the late Denis Gainty, by way of Ian Fletcher’s guest editorship of the double issue for the 2018 volume, continues the sponsorship of the Bulletin by the Southeast World History Association (SEWHA). For me, this will mark a return to the Bulletin, having served as Editor from Spring 2002 through Spring 2010. As detailed in my introduction to the membership in WHB Vol. XVII No. 2 (Fall 2001), I have a history in editorial work. This has only become more extensive over the past decade. My recent experience includes serving as Era Editor for Volumes 17 and 18 of the twenty-one-volume World History Encyclopedia [Al Andrea, General Editor] (ABC-Clio, 2011), Editor of the two-volume The Spanish Empire: A Historical Encyclopedia (ABC-Clio, 2016), and Co-Editor of the forthcoming four-volume The Greenwood Encyclopedia of the Daily Life of Women: How They Lived from Ancient Times to the Present [with Colleen Boyett and M. Diane Gleason] (ABC-Clio, ant. 2019). My editorial team includes three members. Amy-Elizabeth Manlapas will serve as the Bulletin’s Production Editor. Amy is an educator at the Paideia School in Atlanta, Georgia, where she teaches World History, U.S. History, and Anatomy of a Revolution. Nick Di Liberto is associate professor of History at Newberry College (South Carolina), where he teaches World and European History. He previously served as assistant editor of The Journal of the History of Ideas and copy editor of the Journal of the Middle East and Africa. Nick is currently Vice-President/President-Elect of SEWHA. While exact duties are still being finalized, as Associate Editor it is expected that Nick will be responsible for recruiting new essays and assisting in the essay editing. Guolin Yi is assistant professor of History at Arkansas Tech University, where he teaches courses in the fields of Asian and World History. Guolin will serve as Book Review Editor. As we begin the process of transferring the editorship, I wanted to make WHA members aware of our initial plans for the Bulletin. First, by Spring 2019, we intend to return to the inclusion of book reviews, and hope to include both group discussions of common works, as well as stand-alone reviews of books of interest to our members. Second, working through Guest Editors, we intend to continue the targeted exploration of major issues and historical events. Third, working in cooperation with World History Connected, we hope to expand materials for – and contributions by – our classroom teachers. While making sure to not duplicate the efforts of either World History Connected or the Journal of World History, I am confident that the Bulletin can continue to be a valuable source for the WHA membership, students, teachers, and academic scholars alike. Nick, Amy, Guolin, and I look forward to receiving any suggestions and contributions that you wish to submit to us. Letters to the Editor, submission proposals, and general comments should be sent to [email protected]. H. Micheal Tarver Editor-in-Chief World History Bulletin 4 LETTER FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR World History Bulletin • Vol. XXXIV, Nos. 1-2 Assistant Thanasis Kinias teamed up to upgrade the WHA website, including running our site on an entirely new platform. The new website letter from the went live last winter. We have cleaned up redundancies and condensed items to make finding information easier and more logical. This process was a meticulous step-by-step review of our tabs, sections, and pages. executive director Our webmaster felt most excited about one upgrade, stating, “The entire website has been encrypted for greater security; the website connection over the network to the user is completely encrypted (128 bit) protecting world history the data of the users. It has improved the security of members’ account information even more. This includes installing SSL certification to bulletin authenticate the website.” This year’s conference in Milwaukee was filled with great moments. Patrick Crawford, conference registrant and WHA member shared his I have always felt fortunate to have been born on the later edge of thoughts, “As a high school teacher, attending my first WHA Conference the 1960s, although I remember none of it. My understanding of what in Milwaukee was an awesome opportunity to mix with fellow teachers, that decade encompassed did not materialize until the summer of community college professors, and university faculty from around the 1987, twenty years after the Summer of Love. Not surprisingly, this new country in a way I’ve never seen at other conferences or workshops. It knowledge was introduced to me through the music. Has any other was serious and professional, but not once did it feel stuffy or uncom- music captured a decade so fittingly? Buffalo Springfield sang, fortable; everyone was open to respectful conversation, whether they were a notable pioneer of World History or just getting their feet wet “What a field-day for the heat in the field. It was also inspiring to watch all these same people rally A thousand people in the street around the issue of the changes to the World History AP curriculum.” Singing songs and carrying signs Mostly say, hooray for our side Now our office is focusing on our 28th Annual WHA Conference taking It’s time we stop, hey, what’s that sound place June 27 – 29, 2019 in Puerto Rico. The two conference themes in Everybody look what’s going down” Puerto Rico will be “Cities in Global Contexts” and “The Caribbean as Crossroads.” Our host hotel, the Caribe Hilton Hotel in San Juan, will Although the lyrics address happenings in the USA, the reason for these convene all conference sessions under one roof. Partnering with the events went well beyond the borders of this country. Global Urban History Project (GUHP) for a joint conference ensures the interdisciplinary nature of our conference will thrive. The well-crafted The vision for this issue exploring the 50th Anniversary of 1968 and tours and events guarantee we experience the best of the island, as well the decade of the 1960s came from Guest Editor Ian Fletcher. After a as taking part in the recovery the island still faces following the devas- tumultuous 2017 at Georgia State, he picked up the reins at the World tation of Hurricane Maria.