LEADER 04503nam 2200721Ia 450 001 9910779144403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-89099-2 010 $a0-8122-0351-8 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812203516 035 $a(CKB)2550000000104517 035 $a(OCoLC)794702352 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10576047 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000737642 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11422519 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000737642 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10789152 035 $a(PQKB)11254806 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse18480 035 $a(DE-B1597)449188 035 $a(OCoLC)1013948899 035 $a(OCoLC)979753706 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812203516 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441607 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10576047 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL420349 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441607 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000104517 100 $a20080731d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGray Panthers$b[electronic resource] /$fRoger Sanjek 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennyslvania Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (321 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-2191-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [283]-289) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAbbreviations --$tPreface --$tChapter 1: The Political Is Personal --$tChapter 2: The Road to Denver (1970-72) --$tChapter 3: The Road to Chicago (1972-75) --$tChapter 4: The Gray Panthers in Berkeley, California (1973-85) --$tChapter 5: The Gray Panthers in New York City (1972-85) --$tChapter 6: The Road to Washington (1976-85) --$tChapter 7: Loss and Continuity (1986-95) --$tChapter 8: Reorganizing for a New Century (1996-2007) --$tChapter 9: The Gray Panther Legacy --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aIn 1970, a sixty-five-year-old Philadelphian named Maggie Kuhn began vocally opposing the notion of mandatory retirement. Taking inspiration from the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War movements, Kuhn and her cohorts created an activist organization that quickly gained momentum as the Gray Panthers. After receiving national publicity for her efforts-she even appeared on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson-she gained thousands of supporters, young and old. Their cause expanded to include universal health care, nursing home reform, affordable and accessible housing, defense of Social Security, and elimination of nuclear weapons. Gray Panthers traces the roots of Maggie Kuhn's social justice agenda to her years as a YWCA and Presbyterian Church staff member. It tells the nearly forty-year story of the intergenerational grassroots movement that Kuhn founded and its scores of local groups. During the 1980's, more than one hundred chapters were tackling local and national issues. By the 1990's the ranks of older members were thinning and most young members had departed, many to pursue careers in public service. But despite its challenges, including Kuhn's death in 1995, the movement continues today. Roger Sanjek examines Gray Panther activism over four decades. Here the inner workings and dynamics of the movement emerge: the development of network leadership, local projects and tactics, conflict with the national office, and the intergenerational political ties that made the group unique among contemporary activist groups. Part ethnography, part history, part memoir, Gray Panthers draws on archives and interviews as well as the author's thirty years of personal involvement. With the impending retirement of the baby boomers, Sanjek's book will surely inform the debates and discussions to follow: on retirement, health care, and many other aspects of aging in a society that has long valued youth above all. 606 $aOlder people$zUnited States 606 $aAgeism$zUnited States 610 $aAmerican History. 610 $aAmerican Studies. 610 $aAnthropology. 610 $aFolklore. 610 $aLinguistics. 610 $aPolitical Science. 610 $aPublic Policy. 610 $aSociology. 615 0$aOlder people 615 0$aAgeism 676 $a305.260973 700 $aSanjek$b Roger$f1944-$01519683 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779144403321 996 $aGray Panthers$93757940 997 $aUNINA