Stew Albert was born in New York City in December, 1939, and grew
up in Brooklyn. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Pace
University, worked for the New York Department of Welfare, started
graduate work at the New School for Social Research then dropped
out and hit the road.
Stew spent time in Cuba protesting the Vietnam War and became an
organizer for the Vietnam Day Committee in Berkeley in 1965. Stew
also began writing regularly for the Berkeley Barb, a radical
underground newspaper, and was arrested for protest activities on
several occasions.
In 1969, Stew became the editor of another radical underground
newspaper, the Berkeley Tribe, and put out the first call for
students and Berkeley residents to take unused land from the
University of California and turn it into a “People’s Park.” In
1969, Stew was an unindicted co-conspirator in the famous 1969
Chicago Conspiracy Trial.
In 1975, Stew’s longtime sweetheart, Judy Gumbo, found an FBI
homing device on their car. Stew and Judy took the FBI to court and
discovered that the FBI had burglarized their rural mountain cabin
and installed listening devices on numerous occasions. In 1977,
Stew and Judy married and one month later, Stew became a
father.
Stew is the author of two books, The Sixties Papers: Documents of a
Rebellios Decade, (Greenwood Press, 1984) and his memoir, Who the
Hell is Stew Albert (Red Hen Press, 2003). Stew died in 2006. Two
days before his death he posted on his blog, “My politics haven’t
changed.”
Stew died in 2006.
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