The first Detroit Pop Festival on April 7 at Olympia Stadium came off beautifully. All the stalwarts of the Detroit music scene were in attendance to create a ten hour musical trip for over 16,000 people that came to listen. …
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Judge Crockett Statement
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 77, April 17-30, 1969
Editors’ Note: The following is a public statement on the New Bethel incident released by George W. Crockett, Judge, Recorder’s Court, Detroit.
Case Study of a Racist Institution
by People Against Racism
Fifth Estate # 77, April 17-30, 1969
“Along with the country as a whole, the press has too long basked in a white world, looking out of it, if at all, with white men’s eyes and a white perspective.” —Kerner Report, p. 389
77, April 17-30, 1969
by Fifth Estate Collective
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Traffic is Normal
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 76, April 3-16, 1969
Editors’ Note: The following is a press release issued by Detroit Police Commissioner Johannes Spreen at 3:25 am on March 30 following the shoot-out between two police officers and 12 armed black men following a meeting of the New Republic …
Rafael Viera
by Gloria Larry House
Fifth Estate # 88, September 18-October 1, 1969
Editors’ Note: The following interview with Rafael Viera took place at a conference of the Republic of New Africa which was held in Washington, D.C. recently. Viera is awaiting trial on second-degree murder charges stemming from the fatal shooting of …
Viera bound over
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 85, August 7-20, 1969
The man accused of murdering a Detroit policeman at the New Bethel Church last March had his charge reduced from first to second degree murder.
Police Love-in
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 82, June 26-July 9, 1969
Detroit Police Commissioner Johannes (The Lover) Spreen has called for another “love in” to improve police relations with the community.
Editors’ Notes
by Fifth Estate Collective
Fifth Estate # 82, June 26-July 9, 1969
As we go to press word has reached us that Recorder’s Court Judge Robert Colombo has dismissed charges of sales of marijuana against John Sinclair. His trial on the charge of possession began on June 24 and may be in …
Cockrel Acquitted
by Chris Singer
Fifth Estate # 81, June 12-25, 1969
A rose, is a rose, is a rose, is a rose. And a racist judge is, in fact, a racist judge. This is how attorneys for Kenneth Cockrel developed their case that the young black attorney should not be cited …
City Unit Blasts Police
by Chris Singer
Fifth Estate # 80, May 29-June 11, 1969
The Establishment press and the Detroit Police Department have been blasted in a report on the New Bethel Incident done by the Detroit Commission on Community Relations (CCR).
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The Woodstock Nation
by Joyce
Fifth Estate # 87, September 4-17, 1969
WHITE LAKE, N.Y. (Good Times/UPS) —The Woodstock Festival was a huge nonviolent explosion of people and music. The New York Times called it a nightmare but it was more of a fantastic dream. True, there were low scenes—three accidental deaths, …
Mainers Against the Klan!
by Robcat
Fifth Estate # 399, Fall, 2017
It’s Late February in central Maine. A group of anarchists and other anti-racists have gathered at the Margaret Chase-Smith bridge in Skowhegan to respond to recent Ku Klux Klan activity around the state.