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.
Student Protests
Jackson State Killings 50 Years Ago: A Tragedy Widely Forgotten
“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
“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
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.
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
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
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
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.”
Shootings at Kent State, May 4, 1970
Jon Oplinger was wounded in Vietnam and came home to pursue a doctorate in sociology at Kent State. This is his account of the massacre .
2020 McCarthy Symposium postponed
The 2020 McCarthy Symposium, "Vietnam 1970: Homefront and Battlefront," an all day event that was to be hosted by The...
Mapping May 1970 Student Antiwar Strikes
This project is filed under Mapping American Social Movements, a project of the Civil Rights and Labor History...
Isla Vista Rebellion Fifty Years Later
Radio KCSB-FM Marks 50th Anniversary of the Isla Vista Bank of America Burning with Special Programming in February...
Preparing for Spring: Kent State / Jackson State / National Student Strike
Excerpted from the October 45th Vietnam Peace Commemoration Committee's e-newsletter sent by John McAuliff, VPCC...
The Battle for People’s Park, Berkeley 1969: A new oral history of “Bloody Thursday”
The Battle for People’s Park, Berkeley 1969 commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of one of the most searing conflicts that closed out the tumultuous 1960s: the Battle for People’s Park. In a Counterpunch review, Ron Jacobs calls it “A masterwork of history.”
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