Kent State : death and dissent in the long sixties
Title:
Kent State : death and dissent in the long sixties
Author:
Grace, Thomas M., 1950- author.
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Publication Information:
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2016]
Physical Description:
384 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Summary:
On May 4, 1970, National Guard troops opened fire on unarmed antiwar protesters at Kent State University in Ohio, killing four students and wounding nine others, including the author of this book. The shootings shocked the American public and triggered a nationwide wave of campus strikes and protests. To many at the time, Kent State seemed an unlikely site for the bloodiest confrontation in a decade of campus unrest--a sprawling public university in the American heartland, far from the coastal epicenters of political and social change.
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English
Contents:
Prologue: May 4, 1970 -- The working class goes to college -- Democracy and free speech -- The beginning of wartime dissent -- The Kent Committee to End the War in Vietnam -- Fire in the city, vigils on the campus -- Moving toward resistance -- Election 1968 -- Black and white (alone) together -- SDS spring offensive -- Months of protest, days of rage -- Cambodia - a match to the last straw -- "Right here, get set, point, fire!" -- Aftermath -- Carry on -- Epilogue: A battlefield of memory -- Appendix: After the war - the fates of Kent's activist generation.
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ISBN:
9781625341112
9781625341105
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Book
