Madison in the Sixties
Madison, 1962 – The UW Suppresses a Film
Madison in the Sixties – the film the UW suppressed. In the summer of 1960, local NAACP president Lloyd Barbee wanted to expose housing discrimination in the Madison rental market. So he proposed to the University of Wisconsin-Extension Bureau of Audio- Visual Instruction that instructor Stuart Hanisch produce a film to be called “To Find […]
Madison, April 1969 – Another Pivotal Election
Madison, April 1, 1969. Another pivotal election. In April 1961, the city ended years of liberal leadership by electing a conservative mayor, businessman Henry Reynolds. In 1969, it’s poised to do so again – attorney William Dyke. A former top aide to the Republican lieutenant governor Jack Olsen, Dyke was making his third bid for […]
Madison, the first week of April, 1961
Madison, the first week of April, 1961. As the municipal election of 1961 approached, no one expected Mayor Ivan Nestingen to be a candidate. The 39-year-old attorney and former state representative was certainly popular enough to coast to victory — first elected in a special election in 1956, elected to a full two-year term in […]
Madison in the Sixties – Women Making History
Madison in the Sixties – Women making history In 1963, it was the city’s first and still only female alder, Ethel Brown, who maneuvered Madison into adopting the first fair housing code in the state of Wisconsin – more than four years before the federal Fair Housing Act. A graduate of the University of Minnesota, […]
Madison in the Sixties – Women Making History
Madison in the Sixties – Women making history In 1963, it was the city’s first and still only female alder, Ethel Brown, who maneuvered Madison into adopting the first fair housing code in the state of Wisconsin – more than four years before the federal Fair Housing Act. A graduate of the University of Minnesota, […]
Madison’s Female Newsmaker of the Sixties – Ruth Bachuber ...
Madison in the Sixties – Ruth Bachuber Doyle. No woman had a greater impact on the University of Wisconsin and the Madison public schools in the 1960s than Ruth Bachuber Doyle, the city’s female newsmaker of the decade. She had already made history well before the sixties. As the outgoing President of the Daily Cardinal […]
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