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, 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 […]
Rob Zaleski, “Ed Garvey Unvarnished: Lessons From a Visionary Pr...
Madison authors, topics, book events and publishers. Our guest today is journalist and author Rob Zaleski, for a conversation about his new book Ed Garvey Unvarnished: Lessons from a Visionary […]
Madison, fourth week of April 1960
Madison in the Sixties – the last week of April, 1960 19-year-old Jon Micky Hayes is unstable but not insane, doctors say, and so is fit to stand trial for […]