A look back at GLIDE’s Summer of Love: Hippie Is Necessary
“I’m not a professional photographer, I’m a political organizer. I happen to use the camera to tell the story of the work I do.” —Bob Fitch, Civil Rights photographer, former GLIDE seminary intern, and author of Hippie Is Necessary From the nostalgic perspective of this year’s 50th anniversary, San Francisco’s Summer of Love in 1967
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Summer of Love Flashback: The Black People’s Free Store
In August of 1967, GLIDE’s monthly publication, Venture, was entirely devoted to the Black People’s Free Store. The letter that went out with the publication explained briefly, “The Black People’s Free Store was established in the Spring of 1967 by young black militants in the Fillmore ghetto. Since then the store has been distributing free
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Bus Stop in the Name of Love!
Artist Kate Haug talks about her Summer of Love poster series for SF’s bus shelters—and one very hip poster in particular, featuring Janice Mirikitani and Rev. Cecil Williams
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