Madison, the third week of October, 1969. Anti-war protest, and anti-protester repression. Racial progress, personal tragedy. The legislature’s Joint Committee to Study Disruptions, formed during the Black Studies Strike in February, issues a blistering, and very one-sided report denouncing UW administrators and endorsing the bill to close the UW security office and put Madison Police […]
Madison, first week of October, 1969
With the city’s contract with the Madison Bus Company set to expire on November 10, the council takes control of the negotiations. It directs Mayor Bill Dyke to strike a deal for a six-month extension, after which the city will buy the company – provided it gets federal aid. But the company has already rejected […]
Madison, the end of September, 1969
Quarter to three in the morning of September 26, a bomb—between fifteen and twenty sticks of dynamite with a timing device—explodes at the National Guard armory on Wright Street, ripping through steel and sending the armory door flying forty yards into the drill hall, where it damages gear assembled for a monthlong training program in […]
Madison, fourth week of September, 1969
Mayor Dyke’s special three-man panel investigating the Mifflin Street Block Party riots earlier this year issues its report, blaming both sides and pleasing neither. The “greatest factor in causing the confrontations and disorders,” it finds, was “the underlying antagonism which existed” between Mifflanders and the police. The fact that residents knew that police had […]
Madison, third week of September, 1969
A solution may be in sight for the crisis gripping Madison’s mass transit system. With the city contract subsidizing the Madison Bus Company set to expire on November 10, the company had proposed a three-year extension, with the city buying the company at the end of the contract; Mayor William Dyke supported that deal, but […]
Madison, the second week of September, 1969
Madison, the second week of September 1969 The future of Madison mass transit is a mass of confusion, as the Madison bus company rejects the city council’s proposed one-year contract. It insists on the three-year contract it negotiated with Mayor William Dyke, or it says it will go out of business when the current contract […]
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