Cold War Era
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
Student Life during the Cold War Era
Student Life During the Cold War Era
After the end of World War II student life at the University of Illinois and similar public institutions around the country was radically transformed. The G.I. Bill not only provided individual opportunities for veterans of the war, but it also inaugurated a new ethos for higher education consisting of expanded access to the next generation of college students. As the campus began to represent a slightly broader cross-section of the state and national population, students became even more enmeshed in the conflicts of the day over politics, race, sexuality and gender.