Academic Freedom and Free Speech at U of I
The Broyles’ Bills
Clabaugh Act (1947)
The Leo Koch Case
The Fight for Freedom of Speech and Expression in the 1960s
Student Life during the Cold War Era
The GI Bill and the U of I
Sex, Censorship, and the College Scene
Conservatives on Campus
The Black Athlete at the U of I
Women’s Athletics at the University of Illinois
The Struggle for Integration in the 1940s and 50s
Affirmative Action at the University of Illinois
Project 500
Second Wave Feminism on Campus
Gay Rights on Campus
Latina/o Students at U of I
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) at U of I
U of I students and the draft
1967 Protest-Sit-In against DOW Chemical
Publication of “Walrus”
October 15, 1969 Moratorium
March 1970 Rally Against GE
March Riots (1970)
May Student Strike (1970)
The Rise and Fall of President George D. Stoddard
The U of I and the Defense Department
Surveillance, Discipline and the University of Illinois
As the Vietnam War escalated so did the anti-war movement. The anti-war movement borrowed tactics from the Civil Rights Movement to express dissent. Although protests in the 1960s were not popular among most American citizens and many protestors were derided as seditious and unpatriotic, by 1972 the Vietnam War was highly unpopular and speaking out against the war became widespread, albeit still contentious. At the University of Illinois early protests were led by groups such as the Students for a Democratic Society and the Du Bois Club.
As the war intensified more students and professors joined the movement and mass rallies and demonstrations were held on campus. Activists also protested against corporations that manufactured war material and reaped massive profits. In the 1970s protests became more belligerent, especially after the invasion of Cambodia and the shootings of four students at Kent State University.
Bibliography:
Michael S. Foley, Confronting the War Machine: Draft Resistance During the Vietnam War (Chapel Hill: 2003).
William A. Gordon, The Fourth of May: Killings and Coverups at Kent State (Buffalo: 1990).
Kenneth J. Heineman, Campus Wars: the Peace Movement at American State Universities in the Vietnam Era (New York: 1993).
Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, Peace Now!: American Society and the Ending of the Vietnam War (New Haven, 1999).
Patrick D. Kennedy, “Reactions Against the Vietnam War and Military-Related Targets on Campus: The University of Illinois as a Case Study, 1965-72,” Illinois Historical Journal 84:2 (1991): 101-118.
James Miller, “Democracy is in the Streets”: From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago (New York: 1987).
Michael Parenti, “Repression in Academia: A Report From the Field,” Politics and Society 1:4 (1971), 527-538.
Joel P. Rhodes, The Voice of Violence: Performative Violence as Protest in the Vietnam Era (Westport, CT: 2001).
Nancy Zaroulis and Gerald Sullivan, Who Spoke Up?: American Protest Against the War in Vietnam, 1963-1975 (Garden City, N.Y.: 1984).
