Madison in the Sixties
Madison, December 1960
Madison in the Sixties – December, 1960 As the month opens, the Madison Redevelopment Authority closes any hope for public housing in the city’s first urban renewal area, the Brittingham project just east of Brittingham Park. The Madison Housing Authority had been trying all year to get the MRA to OK public housing for the […]
Madison – Racial Tensions, Late November, 1968
Madison in the Sixties – 1968. Racial tensions, late November. On Saturday the 16th, university police arrest a Black nonstudent, Terrence Calneck, in the Rathskeller after he gets into a shouting match and threatens an elderly female worker whom he says used a racial epithet when he complained about the portion of ice cream she […]
Madison, the 3rd week of November, 1965
Madison in the Sixties – the third week of November, 1965 There’s a serious pocket of poverty in South Madison, according to a report prepared for the Madison Redevelopment Authority. Of the 202 households in the area east of S. Park Street and south of Wingra Creek, 27% have annual incomes under $3,000, the federal […]
Madison, November 1969
On the UW campus The first week is the worst week for students who take drugs or disrupt classes, as the Republican-controlled State Assembly advances two crack-down bills introduced in the wake of the Black Studies Strike earlier this year. On the fourth, the Assembly approves and sends to Republican Gov. Warren Knowles a bill […]
Madison, November 1965
Madison in the Sixties –November, 1965 John Lewis, the 25-year-old national chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, SNCC, returns to Madison for two speaking engagements on the second, starting with a noon rally on the Memorial Union steps. That night, 400 students give him a standing ovation after his address in Great Hall, then […]
Madison in the Sixties – Elections
Madison in the Sixties – Elections November 8, 1960. 55,600 voters, an astonishing 88% of Madison’s registered voters go to the polls, giving a narrow local majority to Democratic candidate Sen. John F. Kennedy, who also carries Dane County. First-term US Rep Bob Kastenmeier (D-Watertown) is easily elected to a second term, as is Gov. […]
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