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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]