Student Protests

The Movement and the “Madman”

A new documentary film that will tell a dramatic, untold story about the Vietnam-era peace movement forthcoming.

50th Commemoration of Gibbs-Green Virtual Town Hall

May 18, 2020

Watch Jackson State University’s Margaret Walker Center and the Gibbs-Green 50th Commemoration Commission’s discussion, held via Zoom, on May 14th.

Remembering the Jackson State Tragedy

May 13, 2020

The violence 50 years ago wasn’t caused by anti-war student protest; it was another chapter in the long history of state violence against African Americans.

Jackson State Killings 50 Years Ago: A Tragedy Widely Forgotten

May 13, 2020

“We had had several nights of protests … every campus in this country was in an uproar about the war in Vietnam.”

Fifty Years Ago: Millions of Students Struck To End a War in Vietnam

May 13, 2020

“It’s possible that the campuses are really going to blow up after this speech,” noted President Nixon regarding his address on the US invasion of Cambodia.

Kent State and the War That Never Ended

May 11, 2020

The deadly episode stood for a bitterly divided era. Did we ever leave it? By Jill Lepore for the New Yorker Phillip...

Four Students Were Killed in Ohio. America Was Never the Same.

May 5, 2020

The Kent State shootings marked the end of the 1960s, and the beginning of our era of political polarization. By Richard M. Perloff, professor at Cleveland State University.

Kent State Massacre: The Shootings Changed the Country

May 4, 2020

The shootings at the Vietnam War protest was seen “as an indication that things in the U.S. — on and off campus — were spiraling out of control.” NBC News Report

After the Kent State Massacre, ‘Ohio’ Spoke to the Country

May 4, 2020

Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young released “Ohio” just days after the shooting at Kent State. It remains one of rock’s greatest protest songs.

Fifty Years Later, the Gunfire at Kent State Still Echoes Through America

May 4, 2020

By Michael Winship: “This was the sort of thing that happened in South American dictatorships—student protestors gunned down for speaking out against the government. Not here.”