1970s political unrest
1970s radical activism
1970s social movements
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activist storytelling
American radical tradition
antiwar protest movements
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civil disobedience narratives
Cold War era dissent
commune
countercultural communities
early gay liberation organizing
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FBI
FBI surveillance of activists
Federal Bureau of Investigation
feminist archival recovery
feminist defiance
feminist legal history
feminist oral history
feminist resistance
freedom and identity struggles
Freedom of Information Act research
gay history
gender and state power
gendered resistance to authority
government overreach and privacy
grassroots organizing history
intersection of gender and politics
intersectional feminism
Kentucky LGBTQ history
lesbian and gay rights pioneers
lesbian feminist collectives
lesbian history
LGBTQ civil rights history
LGBTQ historical scholarship
LGBTQ political resistance
LGBTQI history
media coverage of activist trials
police violence in protest movements
political fugitives
political imprisonment narratives
political repression of minorities
post-Stonewall activism
protest era legal struggles
queer fugitives
queer historical nonfiction
queer liberation struggle
queer political organizing
queer rebellion in America
queer resilience
queer solidarity
radical lesbian history
radicalism
reclaiming erased queer histories
social justice movements in America
transformative justice movements
underground feminism
underground feminist networks
women against the Vietnam War
women's political autonomy
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- ISBN 9781625345448
- Weight: 415g
- Dimensions: 149 x 226mm
- Publication Date: 30 Oct 2020
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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On September 23, 1970, a group of antiwar activists staged a robbery at a bank in Massachusetts, during which a police officer was killed. While the three men who participated in the robbery were soon apprehended, two women escaped and became fugitives on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list, eventually landing in a lesbian collective in Lexington, Kentucky, during the summer of 1974. In pursuit, the FBI launched a massive dragnet. Five lesbian women and one gay man ended up in jail for refusing to cooperate with federal officials, whom they saw as invading their lives and community. Dubbed the Lexington Six, the group's resistance attracted national attention, inspiring a nationwide movement in other minority communities. Like the iconic Stonewall demonstrations, this gripping story of spirited defiance has special resonance in today's America.
Drawing on transcripts of the judicial hearings, contemporaneous newspaper accounts, hundreds of pages of FBI files released to the author under the Freedom of Information Act, and interviews with many of the participants, Josephine Donovan reconstructs this fascinating, untold story. The Lexington Six is a vital addition to LGBTQ, feminist, and radical American history.
Drawing on transcripts of the judicial hearings, contemporaneous newspaper accounts, hundreds of pages of FBI files released to the author under the Freedom of Information Act, and interviews with many of the participants, Josephine Donovan reconstructs this fascinating, untold story. The Lexington Six is a vital addition to LGBTQ, feminist, and radical American history.
Josephine Donovan is professor emerita of English at the University of Maine, Orono.
