Stu Levitan welcomes WORT’S own Frank Emspak about his new memoir Troublemaker: Saying No to Power. You probably know Frank as a co-founder and producer of Madison Labor Radio, right […]
Madison in the Sixties – the last week of August
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, the first week of July in the late 60s.
Madison – the first week of July in the late 1960s. On the balmy fourth of July 1965, a crowd of about 60,000 packs Vilas Park for the 14th annual […]
Madison in the 60s – The Dow Skirmish, part 2
Madison in the Sixties – late winter, 1967. Dow 1 – the Skirmish, part two As February turns to March, the campus is still consumed by the aftermath of the […]
Madison, February 1967 – Dow 1: the Skirmish, part one
Madison in the Sixties – February, 1967. Dow 1, the Skirmish – part one A two- day action by Madison Students for a Democratic Society against campus recruiting by the […]
Madison, February 1965
Madison in the Sixties – February, 1965 As the month begins, an attack on the UW student newspaper the Daily Cardinal by a prominent conservative commentator and powerful state senator […]
