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This pin was was issued and sold circa 1966 to 1967 in protest of Governor of California Ronald Reagan (aka Ronald RayGun, the Fascist Gun in the West). The pin shows Reagan appearing to or about to pick his nose, risking his loss of brain matter.
Ronald Reagan launched his political career in 1966 by
targeting UC Berkeley's student peace activists, professors, and, to a great
extent, the University of California itself. In his successful campaign for
governor of California, his first elective office, he attacked the Berkeley
campus, cementing what would remain a turbulent relationship between Reagan and
California's leading institution for public higher education. Reagan and FBI Director Hoover interacted throughout the campaign about dealing
with student protesters. Ronald Reagan also supported Proposition 14 which sought to legalize racial discrimination in the sale of homes. Heck of a guy. He blazed the trail for Donald Trump.
As the Vietnam War expanded and the death toll
climbed, students at Berkeley launched a determined and, at times,
confrontational attempt to stop the war with demonstrations and protests that eventually
spread to college campuses across the country. Years later, much of the public
came to agree with the students but in 1966, those opposed to the war were a
distinct minority in America. Candidate Reagan capitalized on this.
Smelser, assistant chancellor for educational
development at the time Reagan ran for office, recalled that "Reagan took
aim at the university for being irresponsible for failing to punish these
dissident students. He said, 'Get them out of there. Throw them out. They are
spoiled and don't deserve the education they are getting. They don't have a
right to take advantage of our system of education.'"
Reagan had two themes in his first run for office. The
man who later became known as "The Great Communicator" vowed to send
"the welfare bums back to work," and "to clean up the mess at
Berkeley." The latter became a Reagan mantra.
Earl Cheit, dean emeritus of the Haas School of
Business, was executive vice chancellor at Berkeley from 1965 to 1969. Like
many at Berkeley, he remembers being at the wrong end of Reagan's political
broom. "Incidents of campus disruption and reports about
what was going on here – often exaggerated reports– became a standard part of
his campaign rhetoric," said Cheit. "Reagan also argued that the
faculty was too permissive, or supportive, of the students. One of his great
skills was to understand popular feeling. He really tapped into the discontent
people felt about what was happening on the campus. I have no doubt that this
was a big factor in his election as governor."
After defeating incumbent governor Edmund G.
"Pat" Brown, Reagan did not relent in his campaign to "clean up
the mess" at Berkeley.
Said Smelser, "The governor could not intervene
directly in the administration of Berkeley. The two weapons he had were verbal
abuse and the budget. He heaped a great deal of abuse on the Berkeley campus,
and particularly on liberals and liberal faculties. He even singled out
sociology and philosophy as hotbeds. He tried to cut the budget. And, he did
get Clark Kerr fired as UC president."
Kerr was fired three weeks after Reagan took office.
The act was the culmination of a process that began long before, when then-FBI
director J. Edgar Hoover first tried to persuade Kerr to crack down hard on
Berkeley students involved in the 1964 Free Speech Movement, which Hoover
alleged was a front for communist sympathizers. Unable to convince Kerr, Hoover
turned to gubernatorial candidate Reagan, a rising conservative star. As
revealed by a 2002 investigation by San Francisco Chronicle reporter Seth
Rosenfeld, Reagan and the FBI interacted throughout the campaign about dealing
with Kerr and the student protesters.
Cheit said Kerr's firing galvanized the campus.
"The firing of Clark Kerr really caught the attention of everybody on
campus and to a great extent unified the students and faculty. It was a very
emotional time. Most fundamentally, because of the constitutional independence
of the university, the idea that a governor could force out a president was
very disturbing."
John Douglass, a historian and senior research fellow
at UC Berkeley's Center for Studies in Higher Education, faulted Reagan for a
"failure to understand the importance of the University of California in
the life of the citizens of this state." Douglass said that after his
election in 1966, Reagan proposed cutting the UC budget by 10 percent across
the board. He also proposed that, for the first time, UC charge tuition and
suggested that Berkeley sell collections of rare books in the Bancroft Library.
This underground pinback button pin or badge
relates to+ the Hippie (or Hippy) Counterculture Movement of the
psychedelic Sixties (1960's) and Seventies (1970's). That movement
included such themes and topics as peace, protest, civil rights,
radical, socialist, communist, anarchist, union labor strikes, drugs,
marijuana, pot, weed, lsd, acid, sds, iww, anti draft, anti war, anti
rotc, welfare rights, poverty, equal rights, integration, gay, women's
rights, black panthers, black power, left wing, liberal, etc. progressive political movement and
is guaranteed to be genuine as described.The strategy and methods that the Deacons employed attracted the
attention and concern of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI),
which authorized an investigation into the group’s activities. The
investigation stalled, however, when more influential black power
organizations such as US and the
Black Panther Party emerged after the
1965 Watts Riot.
With public attention, and the attention of the FBI focused elsewhere,
the Deacons lost most of their notoriety and slowly declined in
influence. By 1968 they were all but extinct. In 2003 the activities
of the Deacons was the subject of a 2003, “Deacons for Defense.”
- See more at:
/aah/deacons-defense-and-justice#sthash.s6D3h3ZZ.dpuf
On July 10, 1964, a group of African American men in Jonesboro,
Louisiana
led by Earnest “Chilly Willy” Thomas and Frederick Douglas Kirkpatrick
founded the group known as The Deacons for Defense and Justice to
protect members of the
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) against Ku Klux Klan violence. Most of the “Deacons” were veterans of
World War II and the
Korean War.
The Jonesboro chapter organized its first affiliate chapter in nearby
Bogalusa, Louisiana led by Charles Sims, A.Z. Young and Robert Hicks.
Eventually they organized a third chapter in Louisiana. The Deacons
tense confrontation with the Klan in Bogalusa was crucial in forcing the
federal government to intervene on behalf of the local African American
community. The national attention they garnered also persuaded state
and national officials to initiate efforts to neutralize the Klan in
that area of the Deep South.
The Deacons emerged as one of the first visible self-defense forces in the South and as such represented a new face of the
civil rights
movement. Traditional civil rights organizations remained silent on
them or repudiated their activities. They were effective however in
providing protection for local African Americans who sought to register
to vote and for white and black civil rights workers in the area. The
Deacons, for example, provided security for the 1966 March Against Fear
from Memphis to Jackson,
Mississippi.
Moreover their presence in Southeastern Louisiana meant that the Klan
would no longer be able to intimidate and terrorize local African
Americans without challenge.
The strategy and methods that the Deacons employed attracted the
attention and concern of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI),
which authorized an investigation into the group’s activities. The
investigation stalled, however, when more influential black power
organizations such as US and the
Black Panther Party emerged after the
1965 Watts Riot.
With public attention, and the attention of the FBI focused elsewhere,
the Deacons lost most of their notoriety and slowly declined in
influence. By 1968 they were all but extinct. In 2003 the activities
of the Deacons was the subject of a 2003, “Deacons for Defense.”
- See more at:
/aah/deacons-defense-and-justice#sthash.s6D3h3ZZ.dpuf
On July 10, 1964, a group of African American men in Jonesboro,
Louisiana
led by Earnest “Chilly Willy” Thomas and Frederick Douglas Kirkpatrick
founded the group known as The Deacons for Defense and Justice to
protect members of the
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) against Ku Klux Klan violence. Most of the “Deacons” were veterans of
World War II and the
Korean War.
The Jonesboro chapter organized its first affiliate chapter in nearby
Bogalusa, Louisiana led by Charles Sims, A.Z. Young and Robert Hicks.
Eventually they organized a third chapter in Louisiana. The Deacons
tense confrontation with the Klan in Bogalusa was crucial in forcing the
federal government to intervene on behalf of the local African American
community. The national attention they garnered also persuaded state
and national officials to initiate efforts to neutralize the Klan in
that area of the Deep South.
The Deacons emerged as one of the first visible self-defense forces in the South and as such represented a new face of the
civil rights
movement. Traditional civil rights organizations remained silent on
them or repudiated their activities. They were effective however in
providing protection for local African Americans who sought to register
to vote and for white and black civil rights workers in the area. The
Deacons, for example, provided security for the 1966 March Against Fear
from Memphis to Jackson,
Mississippi.
Moreover their presence in Southeastern Louisiana meant that the Klan
would no longer be able to intimidate and terrorize local African
Americans without challenge.
The strategy and methods that the Deacons employed attracted the
attention and concern of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI),
which authorized an investigation into the group’s activities. The
investigation stalled, however, when more influential black power
organizations such as US and the
Black Panther Party emerged after the
1965 Watts Riot.
With public attention, and the attention of the FBI focused elsewhere,
the Deacons lost most of their notoriety and slowly declined in
influence. By 1968 they were all but extinct. In 2003 the activities
of the Deacons was the subject of a 2003, “Deacons for Defense.”
- See more at:
/aah/deacons-defense-and-justice#sthash.s6D3h3ZZ.dpuf
On July 10, 1964, a group of African American men in Jonesboro,
Louisiana
led by Earnest “Chilly Willy” Thomas and Frederick Douglas Kirkpatrick
founded the group known as The Deacons for Defense and Justice to
protect members of the
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) against Ku Klux Klan violence. Most of the “Deacons” were veterans of
World War II and the
Korean War.
The Jonesboro chapter organized its first affiliate chapter in nearby
Bogalusa, Louisiana led by Charles Sims, A.Z. Young and Robert Hicks.
Eventually they organized a third chapter in Louisiana. The Deacons
tense confrontation with the Klan in Bogalusa was crucial in forcing the
federal government to intervene on behalf of the local African American
community. The national attention they garnered also persuaded state
and national officials to initiate efforts to neutralize the Klan in
that area of the Deep South. - See more at:
/aah/deacons-defense-and-justice#sthash.s6D3h3ZZ.dpuf
The strategy and methods that the Deacons employed attracted the
attention and concern of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI),
which authorized an investigation into the group’s activities. The
investigation stalled, however, when more influential black power
organizations such as US and the
Black Panther Party emerged after the
1965 Watts Riot.
With public attention, and the attention of the FBI focused elsewhere,
the Deacons lost most of their notoriety and slowly declined in
influence. By 1968 they were all but extinct. In 2003 the activities
of the Deacons was the subject of a 2003, “Deacons for Defense.”
- See more at:
/aah/deacons-defense-and-justice#sthash.s6D3h3ZZ.dpuf
On July 10, 1964, a group of African American men in Jonesboro,
Louisiana
led by Earnest “Chilly Willy” Thomas and Frederick Douglas Kirkpatrick
founded the group known as The Deacons for Defense and Justice to
protect members of the
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) against Ku Klux Klan violence. Most of the “Deacons” were veterans of
World War II and the
Korean War.
The Jonesboro chapter organized its first affiliate chapter in nearby
Bogalusa, Louisiana led by Charles Sims, A.Z. Young and Robert Hicks.
Eventually they organized a third chapter in Louisiana. The Deacons
tense confrontation with the Klan in Bogalusa was crucial in forcing the
federal government to intervene on behalf of the local African American
community. The national attention they garnered also persuaded state
and national officials to initiate efforts to neutralize the Klan in
that area of the Deep South.
The Deacons emerged as one of the first visible self-defense forces in the South and as such represented a new face of the
civil rights
movement. Traditional civil rights organizations remained silent on
them or repudiated their activities. They were effective however in
providing protection for local African Americans who sought to register
to vote and for white and black civil rights workers in the area. The
Deacons, for example, provided security for the 1966 March Against Fear
from Memphis to Jackson,
Mississippi.
Moreover their presence in Southeastern Louisiana meant that the Klan
would no longer be able to intimidate and terrorize local African
Americans without challenge.
The strategy and methods that the Deacons employed attracted the
attention and concern of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI),
which authorized an investigation into the group’s activities. The
investigation stalled, however, when more influential black power
organizations such as US and the
Black Panther Party emerged after the
1965 Watts Riot.
With public attention, and the attention of the FBI focused elsewhere,
the Deacons lost most of their notoriety and slowly declined in
influence. By 1968 they were all but extinct. In 2003 the activities
of the Deacons was the subject of a 2003, “Deacons for Defense.”
- See more at:
/aah/deacons-defense-and-justice#sthash.s6D3h3ZZ.dpuf
On July 10, 1964, a group of African American men in Jonesboro,
Louisiana
led by Earnest “Chilly Willy” Thomas and Frederick Douglas Kirkpatrick
founded the group known as The Deacons for Defense and Justice to
protect members of the
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) against Ku Klux Klan violence. Most of the “Deacons” were veterans of
World War II and the
Korean War.
The Jonesboro chapter organized its first affiliate chapter in nearby
Bogalusa, Louisiana led by Charles Sims, A.Z. Young and Robert Hicks.
Eventually they organized a third chapter in Louisiana. The Deacons
tense confrontation with the Klan in Bogalusa was crucial in forcing the
federal government to intervene on behalf of the local African American
community. The national attention they garnered also persuaded state
and national officials to initiate efforts to neutralize the Klan in
that area of the Deep South.
The Deacons emerged as one of the first visible self-defense forces in the South and as such represented a new face of the
civil rights
movement. Traditional civil rights organizations remained silent on
them or repudiated their activities. They were effective however in
providing protection for local African Americans who sought to register
to vote and for white and black civil rights workers in the area. The
Deacons, for example, provided security for the 1966 March Against Fear
from Memphis to Jackson,
Mississippi.
Moreover their presence in Southeastern Louisiana meant that the Klan
would no longer be able to intimidate and terrorize local African
Americans without challenge.
The strategy and methods that the Deacons employed attracted the
attention and concern of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI),
which authorized an investigation into the group’s activities. The
investigation stalled, however, when more influential black power
organizations such as US and the
Black Panther Party emerged after the
1965 Watts Riot.
With public attention, and the attention of the FBI focused elsewhere,
the Deacons lost most of their notoriety and slowly declined in
influence. By 1968 they were all but extinct. In 2003 the activities
of the Deacons was the subject of a 2003, “Deacons for Defense.”
- See more at:
/aah/deacons-defense-and-justice#sthash.s6D3h3ZZ.dpuf
On July 10, 1964, a group of African American men in Jonesboro,
Louisiana
led by Earnest “Chilly Willy” Thomas and Frederick Douglas Kirkpatrick
founded the group known as The Deacons for Defense and Justice to
protect members of the
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) against Ku Klux Klan violence. Most of the “Deacons” were veterans of
World War II and the
Korean War.
The Jonesboro chapter organized its first affiliate chapter in nearby
Bogalusa, Louisiana led by Charles Sims, A.Z. Young and Robert Hicks.
Eventually they organized a third chapter in Louisiana. The Deacons
tense confrontation with the Klan in Bogalusa was crucial in forcing the
federal government to intervene on behalf of the local African American
community. The national attention they garnered also persuaded state
and national officials to initiate efforts to neutralize the Klan in
that area of the Deep South. - See more at:
aah/deacons-defense-and-justice#sthash.s6D3h3ZZ.dpuf
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