Radicals in the heartland : the 1960s student protest movement at the University of Illinois / Michael V. Metz.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Metz, Michael V., author.

Contributor:

• Lemons, Gary L., editor.

Series:

• Illinois scholarship online.
• Illinois scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Student movements--Illinois--History--20th century.
• Protest movements--Illinois--History--20th century.
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign--Students--Political activity--History--20th century.
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (246 pages)

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2020.

Summary:

Entering the 1960s, the University of Illinois typified 'Middle America,' with its midwestern campus, middle-class enrollment, and midcentury quiescence-the unlikeliest of settings for protest, rebellion, and riots in the streets. But all of that came to pass. Born of free-speech issues in the Red Scare era and nourished by anger with an unpopular war, protests grew into a general antiestablishment frustration, climaxing in a student strike and days-long violent disturbances that shut down one of the nation's largest land-grant universities. How could this happen, here? The story is one of self-important legislators, well-intentioned administrators, a conservative citizenry, and 'outside agitators,' but mostly of a minority of confident, determined, somewhat naive students.

Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 3, 2019).
• Previously issued in print: 2019.

ISBN:

• 9780252051258
• 0252051254