Madison in the Sixties. Panty Raids October 8, 1961 It’s just after midnight Sunday morning and more than a thousand beer-and-hormone-soaked young men are out on State Street, celebrating the […]
Madison in the Sixties – Bob Dylan
Madison in the Sixties – Bob Dylan Bob Dylan, age nineteen, his direction still unknown, blows into town in early January, 1961 and falls in with the leftist/folkie/theater crowd. He’s […]
Madison in the Sixties – the last week of March
Madison in the Sixties – the end of March 1960 On the 25th, more than a thousand students pack old Music Hall past legal capacity for Sen. John F Kennedy’s […]
Madison in the Sixties – Women Making History
Madison in the Sixties – Women making history In 1963, it was the city’s first and still only female alder, Ethel Brown, who maneuvered Madison into adopting the first fair […]
Madison in the Sixties – the last week of January.
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 […]
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 […]
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