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Gray Panthers (Paperback)
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In 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 1980s, more
than one hundred chapters were tackling local and national issues.
By the 1990s 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.
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