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Madison in the Sixties

Topical tales of Madison's influential people and critical events from long ago.

Madison, Feb. 21-22, 1967: Dow 1– the Skirmish

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Getting the Dow Chemical Company to stop making the incendiary gel Napalm B for use in Vietnam became a priority for the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) when the Ann Arbor chapter launched a protest campaign against the Michigan- based company in August 1966. Six months later, the Madison SDS steps up. Tuesday morning, February […]

Madison, the third week of February in the sixties

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1960 Sen. John F Kennedy begins his Wisconsin presidential primary campaign at 5:30 in the morning of February 16, shaking hands with about a third of the 1,500 first-shift workers arriving at the Oscar Mayer company plant gates. With neither hat nor gloves, his only concession to the frigid February weather, a topcoat and scarf […]

Madison, the second week of February

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Madison in the sixties, the second week of February An important week for university expansion. In 1961, the regents authorize vice president A.W. Peterson to start buying land for the massive $30 million South East Dormitory project which will create about 4,000 housing units. Exactly one year later, the regents approve $6.4 million in contracts […]

Madison, the third week of January in the Sixties

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Madison in the sixties – the third week of January  January 18 1962 —  The most important cultural and social institution in the Greenbush neighborhood celebrates its fiftieth anniversary of its founding — the Club Lavoratori Italiani Sicilia di Mutuo Sucorso e Beneficenza, more widely known as Italian Workmen’s Club. The club opened its fine brick building […]

Madison, the second week of January

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Madison, the second week in January January 11, 1960 — The Madison Council of Parent- Teacher Associations stops sponsoring Saturday movies at the Strand and Eastwood because the children keep misbehaving. 140 January 14 1965 The city council ignores the advice from city attorney Edwin Conrad and adopts an ordinance, 14–7, barring the issuance of a […]

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