Madison in the Sixties
Madison, the first week of March, 1961
Sixty years ago this week, things look bleak for Frank Lloyd Wright’s Monona Terrace, there’s bad news for elderly Blacks and Jews, and out-of-state students are under fire. Stu Levitan travels back in time for tonight’s Madison in the Sixties The Spring primary on March 7 brings double-barreled bad news for Frank Lloyd Wright’s Monona Terrace […]
Madison, Feb. 27, 1960 – Civil Rights comes to the Capitol Squar...
Madison, February 27, 1960 – the civil rights movement moves to the Capitol Square The sit-ins challenging segregation at the lunch counters of national chain stores in the deep South began in Greensboro, North Carolina, on February 1, 1960. Before the month is over, the campaign prompts Madison’s first political demonstration of the decade— about […]
Madison, February 1969 – The Black Studies Strike Ends in Victor...
The strike’s momentum begins to wane on Monday, February 17, with numbers down to about seven hundred, but strikers continue to obstruct streets and disrupt classes. Some shout down Professor George Mosse as he attempts to lecture on European cultural history, but Mosse takes a historian’s view of the incident and is nonplussed. Late […]
Madison in the Sixties – February 1969, the Black Studies Strike...
Madison in the sixties – the second week of February, 1969 – the Black Studies Strike. Sparked by the UW conference entitled The Black Revolution: To What Ends, the burgeoning Black Power movement on campus crystallizes around the so-called 13 Demands, which the Black People’s Alliance releases February 7 in a noon rally on Library […]
Madison in the Sixties – the first week of February 1969 – the Bla...
From February 3-8, twenty-one nationally renowned guests – including the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Andrew Young – and forty-three faculty, staff, and students, lead a conference at the University of Wisconsin entitled “The Black Revolution: To What Ends?” Produced by Union Forum Committee co-chairs Margery Tabankin and Neil Weisfeld for $8,861, the six-day symposium attracts […]
Madison in the Sixties – the last week of January.
1963 — The UW Protection and Security Department hires its first female investigator, Nancy Marshall, a former member of the Madison Police Department’s Bureau of Crime Prevention. Campus police chief Albert Hamann says Marshall will handle investigations involving women and juveniles. In 1964, teenage romance turns to trouble, as high school gangs rumble all over […]
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