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 […]
Madison, January 20, 1961 – JFK and Madison
Madison in the Sixties – January 20, 1961 In 1960, Sen. John F. Kennedy didn’t carry Madison in the Democratic presidential primary or Wisconsin in the general election. But his candidacy still had a profound local impact. His primary campaign against Sen. Hubert Humphrey created enough Badgerland bitterness to last for years, even damaging the […]
Madison in the Sixties – Elections
Madison in the Sixties – Elections November 8, 1960. 55,600 voters, an astonishing 88% of Madison’s registered voters go to the polls, giving a narrow local majority to Democratic candidate Sen. John F. Kennedy, who also carries Dane County. First-term US Rep Bob Kastenmeier (D-Watertown) is easily elected to a second term, as is Gov. […]
Civil Rights in Madison, 1966
Madison in the Sixties – Civil Rights, 1966 May 14—The Newspaper Guild of Madison names Reverend James C. Wright, chair of the city Equal Opportunity Commission and assistant minister at Mt. Zion Baptist Church, its Citizen of the Year.[i] Exactly two weeks later, the Madison Board of Realtors, which campaigned against the city’s fair housing […]
Madison, summer of ’68 – Riot Gear and Mace
Madison in the Sixties. The summer of 68 – attempts to defund the police and take away their Mace. In the months following the anti-Dow protest in October, 1967, there were no large-scale demonstrations for the rest of the school year. But when police informants report in early summer that 68-69 would bring an upsurge […]
Matthew Levin, “Cold War University – Madison and the New ...
Madison Authors, Topics, Book Events, Publishers Stu Levitan welcomes Matthew Levin, who scores a trifecta — he’s a PhD from the UW, and the author of “Cold War University: Madison and the New Left in the Sixties” from our friends at the University of Wisconsin Press. As to the topic – in the 1960s, the […]
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