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The University of Illinois in the Cold War Era 1945-1975: Publication of “Walrus”

Publication of “Walrus”

The Walrus highlighted protests against free-speech restrictions and the war in Vietnam, circa late-1960s

The Walrus was an underground newspaper published by U of I students in the late-1960s.  Alternative publications flourished as students protested against mainstream American institutions. 



U of I Sources:

Walrus, 1968- (RS 41/66/869)

Student Affairs Dean’s Office Subject File, 1966-97 (RS 41/1/6)

Student and Faculty Organizations Constitutions and Registration Cards, 1909-  (RS 41/2/41): Box 26

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).