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 […]
Madison War Dead, 1965-1967
Madison in the sixties. Our Vietnam casualties. Part one. 1965 Marine staff sergeant Roscoe Ammerman, thirty- seven, becomes the first Madison casualty when he is killed in action in Quang Nam province on October 3. Ammerman joined the Marines at seventeen in August 1945, after dropping dropped out of Central High School following his junior […]
Madison, the fourth week of May 1962
Madison in the Sixties – the fourth week of May, 1962 The United Community Chest will likely soon stop paying the membership dues at the Madison Club for its executive director’s due to concerns about alleged discrimination in the exclusive private club’s membership practices. The club, where Madison’s business, legal and social elite entertain and […]
Madison, third week of May 1966
Madison, third week of May 1966. As the war in Viet Nam escalates, so too does the monthly draft. When it hits 40,000 in December, 1965, Selective Service director General Lewis B. Hershey warns that “marginal” students — about 10 percent of university freshmen and sophomores — could soon lose their 2-S student deferment and […]
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