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Walter Nicklin

Walter Nicklin  is a longtime journalist and publisher who divides his time between the United States and Europe. He can be found on Twitter @RoadTripRedux.

Apocalypse Then and Now

Last in a series of half-century reflections

by Walter Nicklin | Thursday, December 27, 2018

Where Did the Love Go?

Half-Century Reflections on 1968

by Walter Nicklin | Wednesday, October 24, 2018

War and Peace in Chicago

Looking back at the 1968 Democratic Convention

by Walter Nicklin | Thursday, August 23, 2018

The Half-Century What If?

How would our lives be different if RFK had not been assassinated?

by Walter Nicklin | Thursday, May 31, 2018

The Year That Spring Did Not Come

Looking back on the turmoil of 1968

by Walter Nicklin | Tuesday, March 20, 2018

1968 a Half Century Later

A Year (Until Now?) Like No Other

by Walter Nicklin | Tuesday, January 23, 2018

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THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

School Survival

by Anne P. Beatty

As L.A. teachers prepare to go on strike, we’re revisiting an essay by Anne P. Beatty about her time teaching high school in South Central Los Angeles, where her homeroom class often paused for a moment of silence to mourn students who had died in drive-by shootings. Her students knew that this was not the case in wealthier school districts. “They knew that somewhere there were schools with computers that worked, just as they knew that somewhere it was safe to walk through the streets at night,” Beatty writes. “They knew it wasn’t normal for 16-year-olds to die.” But what she found shocking, her students had to learn to endure. “Apathy was involved in giving in to the violence, and there was despair over the prospect of a better future.”