Madison, the second week of June, 1969 The three private clubs in Madison that practice racial discrimination in their membership – the Elks, Eagles and Loyal Order of the Moose – have known since 1966 that they could lose their city liquor licenses if they didn’t change the “whites-only” clause in their charters. That’s when […]
Madison, May 1967 – The Bus Lane Protest
Madison – May, 1967. The Bus Lane Protest By the spring of 1967. many campuses were having demonstrations against the war, the draft, and the CIA. But only Madison had a disruptive protest over a bus lane. In 1960 the city announced a ten-year plan to improve University Avenue from Bassett Street to Old Middleton […]
Madison in the Sixties – The Anti-Draft Sit-in of May, 1966
As the war in Viet Nam escalated, so too did the monthly draft. When it hit 40,000 in December, 1965, Selective Service director General Lewis B. Hershey warned that “marginal” students — about 10 percent of university freshmen and sophomores — could soon lose their 2-S student deferment and be drafted. To define “marginal,” he […]
Madison in the Sixties – the Mifflin Street Block Party Riot, pa...
Madison in the Sixties – the Mifflin Street Block Party Riot, part 2 Sunday, May 4, 1969 – Late afternoon Tear gas lingers in the soft spring air, rocks and bricks are strewn through the streets, all residue of last night’s riot. Mifflanders still want a block party; Mayor Bill Dyke still says no and […]
Madison in the Sixties – the Mifflin Block Party Riots, Part 1
Madison in the Sixties: The Mifflin Street Block Party Riots, part 1 On April 29, 1969, an anonymous group calling itself the International Were Wolf Conspiracy posts flyers downtown advertising a party that Saturday in the 500 block of West Mifflin St. The illustration is of a man with a bandolero, with a call for […]
Madison, December 1969
Madison in the Sixties – December, 1969 December 2— A massive urban renewal project for the Miffland neighborhood runs into trouble at the Plan Commission, as area alderman Paul Soglin challenges plans for high-rise condo units. Soglin wants to rehab the existing housing stock through renovation and cooperatives rather than build new. December 6–7— About […]
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