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, April 1962
Madison in the Sixties – April, 1962 Henry Reynolds was elected mayor in April 1961 on platform of killing the Frank Lloyd Wright Monona Terrace project, which had been authorized […]
Madison, February 1962
Madison in the Sixties – February, 1962 With no progress coming on state or federal efforts for a strong civil rights bill, Attorney Lloyd Barbee, the former president of the […]
Madison, the third week of June in the 1960s
Madison in the Sixties. The third week of June 1961— With civil rights activists from the UW among the Freedom Riders risking life and liberty to integrate interstate bus travel, […]