This ticket is from FTA's performance in Monterey, California (from Peoples Oral History Project Monterey County).
The racially-inclusive and pro-feminist messages of FTA stood in sharp contrast to Bob Hope’s show. Whereas Hope made racist jokes, FTA embraced racial equality and took seriously the grievances of non-whites. While Hope joked about sexual assault and unapologetically objectified the women in his cast, FTA endorsed women’s liberation and featured women as full participants in the show – without forcing them to don sexually provocative clothing. In these ways, the FTA show synthesized and performed a leftist critique of the Vietnam War. Reflecting the political currents of the early 1970s – which included women’s liberation and such groups as the Black Panthers – the FTA show embraced versions of Black Power and gender equality within its antiwar critique. Simply challenging U.S. government-sanctioned entertainment with a non-sanctioned antiwar show would have been historic, but the FTA show went beyond this. The show not only lambasted the war, but it rejected the cluster of values that the military – and its chief entertainer – espoused.
Sarah King at U.S. History Scene. Free The Army
How Celebrities and Entertainers Mobilized to Challenge Pro-War Entertainment During the Vietnam War
Len Chandler's obituaries cited his participation in FTA shows. I have really enjoyed learning more about those shows.