Carl was six years older than his cousin Peg but there was a mutual admiration and bond, complicated by the great geographical distance between them.
Author: Peg Johnston
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Elizabeth Freeman II
Elizabeth (or Betty as she was known earlier in her life) was engaged in many progressive causes, including the anti war movement, Women’s Land Movement, lesbian and gay pride, fighting ageism, and founded, with others, Old Lesbians Organizing for Change (OLOC).
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Robert C Johnston, Photographer
Robert Clark Johnston (Bob) had a lifelong passion for photography, especially developing his own black and white (silver tone) images.
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John Henry Johnston
John Henry Johnston was a naturalist and built and lived most of his life in the wild.
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Allan Troxler
Allan, with Carl, and other gay men started RFD a publication for gay men living in the country.
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An Interracial Movement of the Poor?
This 1963 mimeographed article was written by Carl Wittman and Tom Hayden based on observations of their work in poor neighborhoods in Newark, NJ organizing around issues of housing, jobs, and discrimination.
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The Gay Manifesto
The Gay Manifesto, was, and remains, a pioneering document for the gay movement. Written shortly before the Stonewall Uprising in NYC in June of 1969, it laid out the revolutionary potential of the movement to challenge the power structure.
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Carl Wittman, Organizer
Carl Wittman, son of Jeanette Freeman Wittman and Walter Wittman, lived the life of an organizer and he was pivotal in a number of movements.
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We Have Met the Enemy and They are Us
This is an essay by Peg Johnston analyzing abortion politics and especially emphasizing that individuals have the power to change the culture around abortion if only they would speak up.
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Opting Out of the Abortion War:
This is one of Peg Johnston’s “thought pieces” on abortion politics from the perspective of an independent provider.