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Radicals in the Heartland - The 1960s Student Protest Movement at the University of Illinois (Hardcover)
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Radicals in the Heartland - The 1960s Student Protest Movement at the University of Illinois (Hardcover)
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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 lecture halls
while explosions rocked a federal building on one side of town and
a recruiting office on the other. Across the state, the
powers-that-be expressed shock that such events could take place at
Illinois's esteemed, conservative, flagship university-how could it
happen here, of all places? Positioning the events in the context
of their time, Michael V. Metz delves into the lives and actions of
activists at the center of the drama. A participant himself, Metz
draws on interviews, archives, and newspaper records to show a
movement born in demands for free speech, inspired by a movement
for civil rights, and driven to the edge by a seemingly
never-ending war. If the sudden burst of irrational violence
baffled parents, administrators, and legislators, it seemed
inevitable to students after years of official intransigence and
disregard. Metz portrays campus protesters not as angry, militant
extremists but as youthful citizens deeply engaged with grave moral
issues, embodying the idealism, naivete, and courage of a minority
of a generation.
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