LEADER 03085oam 22006134a 450 001 9910153233303321 005 20230808200621.0 010 $a1-61376-338-7 035 $a(CKB)3710000000954476 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4744410 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse37458 035 $a(OCoLC)963611402 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000954476 100 $a20151202d2016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aKent State $edeath and dissent in the long sixties /$fThomas M. Grace 210 1$aAmherst :$cUniversity of Massachusetts Press,$d[2016] 210 3$aBaltimore, Md. :$cProject MUSE,$d2016 215 $a1 online resource (420 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aCulture, politics, and the Cold War 311 $a1-62534-110-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPrologue: May 4, 1970 -- The working class goes to college -- Democracy and free speech -- The beginning of wartime dissent -- The Kent Committee to End the War in Vietnam -- Fire in the city, vigils on the campus -- Moving toward resistance -- Election 1968 -- Black and white (alone) together -- SDS spring offensive -- Months of protest, days of rage -- Cambodia - a match to the last straw -- "Right here, get set, point, fire!" -- Aftermath -- Carry on -- Epilogue: A battlefield of memory -- Appendix: After the war - the fates of Kent's activist generation. 330 $aOn May 4, 1970, National Guard troops opened fire on unarmed antiwar protesters at Kent State University in Ohio, killing four students and wounding nine others, including the author of this book. The shootings shocked the American public and triggered a nationwide wave of campus strikes and protests. To many at the time, Kent State seemed an unlikely site for the bloodiest confrontation in a decade of campus unrest--a sprawling public university in the American heartland, far from the coastal epicenters of political and social change. 410 0$aCulture, politics, and the cold war. 606 $aKent State Shootings, Kent, Ohio, 1970 606 $aVietnam War, 1961-1975$xProtest movements 606 $aCivil rights movements$zOhio$zKent 606 $aCivil rights demonstrations$zOhio$zKent 606 $aAnti-war demonstrations$zOhio$zKent 606 $aWorking class$zOhio$zKent 606 $aStudent movements$zOhio$zKent 606 $aStudents$xAttitudes 615 0$aKent State Shootings, Kent, Ohio, 1970. 615 0$aVietnam War, 1961-1975$xProtest movements. 615 0$aCivil rights movements 615 0$aCivil rights demonstrations 615 0$aAnti-war demonstrations 615 0$aWorking class 615 $aStudent movements 615 0$aStudents$xAttitudes. 676 $a378.771/37 700 $aGrace$b Thomas M.$f1950-$01243713 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 801 2$bAzTeS 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910153233303321 996 $aKent State$92884939 997 $aUNINA