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Michael V. Metz
In 1969, the campus tumult that defined the Sixties reached a flash point at the University of Illinois. Out-of-town radicals preached armed revolution. Students took to the streets and fought police and National Guardsmen. Firebombs were planted in
Autor:
Michael V. Metz
Entering the 1960s, the University of Illinois typified “Middle America,” with its midwestern campus, middle-class enrollment, and midcentury quiescence—the unlikeliest of settings for protest, rebellion, and riots in the streets. But all of th
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Autor:
Michael V. Metz
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Radicals in the Heartland
The administration dithered, unsure how to react to the DuBois Club application, and the uncertainty dragged on for months. Various left-liberal campus groups coalesced around the issue, seeing a link between the DuBois question and the Clabaugh Act
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https://doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252042416.003.0009
https://doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252042416.003.0009
Autor:
Michael V. Metz
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Radicals in the Heartland
Spring began with protests against defense contractor General Electric’s campus recruiting, and after an RU rally students turned violent, breaking windows in the building housing recruiters. Crowds massed in Green Street and police cleared them, b
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https://doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252042416.003.0034
Autor:
Michael V. Metz
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Radicals in the Heartland
In early October the DRU voted to sit-in at the local draft board, and two members announced they’d burn their draft cards the day of the event. Herbert Gutowsky, Chemistry Department head, met with SDS and CEWV leaders on their Dow plans, advising
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https://doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252042416.003.0022
Autor:
Michael V. Metz
Publikováno v:
Radicals in the Heartland
At the next SACA rally the movement widened its scope, renaming itself Students for Free Speech (SFS), and published a manifesto that spoke of broader goals, including “human freedom.” The new group voted to invite Louis Diskin, an avowed member
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https://doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252042416.003.0017
Autor:
Michael V. Metz
Publikováno v:
Radicals in the Heartland
Dean of Students Millet assumed the point position on the DuBois issue, making public statements regarding the status, reviews, analyses, and delays in decision-making. A faculty committee recommended club recognition. Campus activists, from Young So
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https://doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252042416.003.0010
Autor:
Michael V. Metz
Publikováno v:
Radicals in the Heartland
Henry announced he’d taken the DuBois Club decision out of Millet’s hands and passed it to a committee of the board of trustees. Millet appeared relieved to be done with it. The president had faced situations of this nature in the past and succes
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https://doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252042416.003.0011
Autor:
Michael V. Metz
Publikováno v:
Radicals in the Heartland
By the middle of the decade, civil rights dominated the nation’s news media, but the war was escalating, and the student newspaper, the Daily Illini, was filled with stories of both. The paper introduced a different news theme when free-speech prot
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https://doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252042416.003.0007
Autor:
Michael V. Metz
Publikováno v:
Radicals in the Heartland
News broadcasts in summer 1967 were filled scenes of riots, burning cities, and National Guard troops. The peaceful civil rights movement had morphed into a demand for black power. Death totals were rising in Vietnam as the war intensified and became
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https://doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252042416.003.0020