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 got the number for Socialist Club president and banjoist grad student Ron Radosh, but his apartment at 444 Hawthorne Ct. is too small for Dylan […]
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 last local appearance before the April 5 presidential primary. University workers lock the doors, leaving several hundred students out in the snow – until one […]
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 housing code in the state of Wisconsin – more than four years before the federal Fair Housing Act. A graduate of the University of Minnesota, […]
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 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. […]
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