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Madison, the second week of June, 1969

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It was in 1966 that the city council declared it would stop granting liquor licenses “at some future date” to private clubs that practice racial discrimination in their membership. That date isn’t here yet for the Elks and the Eagles, but it may have arrived for the Loyal Order of Moose – all of whom […]

First week of June, 1969

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Madison, the first week of June, 1969 City building inspectors find 208 building and safety code violations in the student Mifflin-Bassett street area, seemingly validating student complaints about bad landlords. Mayor Bill Dyke ordered the comprehensive inspections in the wake of the Mifflin Street Block Party riot in early May after area youth cited poor […]

A Good American Family with David Maraniss

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For today’s episode, guest host Stu Levitan is joined in the studio by Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist David Maraniss to discuss his latest book, A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father. The book traces the history of the House Un-American Activities Committee’s investigation into his father, Elliott Maraniss, in Detroit in 1952 and provokes […]

May, 1966 – Anti-Draft Sit-In, part 2

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Madison, the fourth week of May 1966. The anti-draft sit-in, part 2 For the second Saturday in a row, about two thousand young men take a three-hour test at the UW Fieldhouse that could determine their lives and deaths. Those who do well enough on the test from the Selective Service System, or have a […]

The Anti-Draft Sit-In of 1966, part 1

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  Madison, third week of May 1966 –the anti-draft sit-in, part 1. As the war in Viet Nam escalates, so too does the monthly draft. When it hits 40,000 in December, 1965, Selective Service director General Lewis B. Hershey warns that “marginal” students — about 10 percent of university freshmen and sophomores — could soon […]

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