Madison in the Sixties
Madison, October 1962 – Civil Rights
As the month opens, U.S. Army Captain James Gregory, on a year’s leave from the Oklahoma Reserve to attend the University of Wisconsin, is still without a place for his […]
Madison in the Sixties – the last week of August
1961 August 30—Ed Garvey, immediate past president of the Wisconsin Student Association, is elected president of the National Student Association at a stormy ten-day NSA convention held on the UW […]
Madison, August 1969
Madison in the sixties – August, 1969 When former Secretary of State Dean Rusk arrives at the Memorial Union for a speech to the summer session of the graduate school […]
Madison, August 1968 – The Incident at Breese Stevens Field
Madison in the Sixties – August 1968 The Incident at Breese Stevens Field It’s hot and humid on Saturday night August third, cloudy and without much of a breeze. About four […]
Madison, August 1967
Madison in the Sixties – August, 1967 The summer of 67 sizzles with what the Equal Opportunities Commission calls “tension-filled incidents with racial overtones.” Black families living around Odana Road […]
Death in Madison, the last week of July 1962
Madison in the Sixties – the last week of July, 1962. The sad saga of the disgraced former Madison police chief Bruce Weatherly comes to a tragic end on Wednesday […]
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