Dissent in the heartland : the sixties at Indiana University / Mary Ann Wynkoop.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wynkoop, Mary Ann.

Series:

Midwestern history and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indiana University--History--20th century.

Indiana University.

Indiana University--Students--Political activity--History--20th century.

Student movements--Indiana--Bloomington--History--20th century.

Student movements.

History.

Political participation.

Indiana--Bloomington.

Physical Description:

xi, 214 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2002]

Summary:

This grassroots view of student activism in the 1960s chronicles the years of protest at one Midwestern university. Located in a region of farmland, conservative politics, and traditional family values, Indiana University was home to the antiwar protestors, civil rights activists, members of the counterculture, and feminists who helped change the heart of Middle America. Its students made their voices heard on issues from such local matters as dorm curfews and self-governance to national issues of racism, sexism, and the Vietnam War. Their recognition that the personal was the political would change them forever. The protest movement they helped shape would reach into the heart-land in ways that would redefine higher education, politics, and cultural values.

Based on research in primary sources, interviews, and FBI files, Dissent in the Heartland reveals the Midwestern pulse of the Sixties, beating firmly, far from the elite schools and urban centers of the East and West.

Contents:

The dawn of dissent: 1960-65

The awakening of activism: 1965-67

The antiwar movement

A precarious peace

Student rights, civil rights: African Americans and the struggle for racial justice

The women's movement: an idea whose time had come

Bloomington and the counterculture in southern Indiana.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-208) and index.

ISBN:

0253341183

0253215579

OCLC:

48579210