Madison in the Sixties – race for mayor, 1963 Conservative businessman Henry Reynolds was elected mayor in 1961 over Bob Nuckels, the top aide to the outgoing liberal mayor Ivan […]
Madison, November 1962
Madison in the Sixties – November 1962 More trouble for the city’s urban renewal program, as efforts to relocate residents of the Greenbush neighborhood who are losing their homes to […]
Madison, August 1967
Madison in the Sixties – August, 1967 The summer of 67 sizzles with what the Equal Opportunities Commission calls “tension-filled incidents with racial overtones.” Black families living around Odana Road […]
Madison in the Sixties – the third week of June
Madison in the Sixties. The third week of June 1961— While civil rights activists from the UW risk life and liberty traveling through the Deep South as Freedom Riders seeking […]
Madison, April 1964
Madison in the Sixties – April, 1964 As the month opens, members of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) are continuing their boycott and picketing of the Sears store on […]
Madison, October 1961
Madison in the Sixties – October, 1961 About 5,000 homes in the greater Madison area already have some sort of fallout shelter for protection after a nuclear war, a civil […]