Stu Levitan presents an illustrated talk on Madison, 1969, adapted from his new book “Madison in the SIxties” (Wisconsin Historical Society Press)
Madison’s Enduring Institutions of 1969
Madison, 1969 – Enduring Institutions … more less The Mifflin Street Community Cooperative opens January 13 in the former White Front Grocery at 32 N. Bassett St. First-day receipts — $130. Initially, the co-op is run by volunteers; to underscore community ownership, the cash register is periodically turned around for members to ring themselves out. […]
Madison Mayoral Election of 1969
Madison, April 1, 1969. The city elects a conservative mayor. Republican attorney William Dyke, who lost to Mayor Otto Festge by only sixty-four votes in 1967, announces his 1969 campaign on January 4; two days later, Festge announces he’s not running for a third two two-year term – a decision he says he made before […]
Madison in the Sixties – The Black Studies Strike, Part 4
Madison, February 27 1969 – an hour of destruction brings the UW Black Studies Strike to a close. Through ten days of campus obstruction and disruption, strikers had been careful to avoid vandalism. And it looked like they had won their major objective, with a committee vote recommending the UW establish a Black Studies Department. […]
Madison in the Sixties – The Black Studies Strike, Part 3
Fifty years ago this week, the Black Studies Strike reached a turning point. Saturday, February 15, a petition supporting the university administration “in its refusal to surrender to mob pressure and lawless force, in its determination to continue normal educational activities, in its efforts to deal with problems, including those involving the disadvantaged members of […]
Madison In The Sixties: January – The Third Week Of January, 1969
Bad news for a Monona Terrace auditorium, two nights of radical theater, and an off-beat mayoral campaign. Just some of what was going on in Madison 50 years ago this week. The third week of January, 1969 Hopes that the city would soon start construction on a 2,300-seat civic auditorium at Monona Terrace start to fade […]
