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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis splendid historical piece demonstrates an important point: how the convergence of local events and values associated with the civil rights, antiwar, and women's movements of that era transformed the culture of a unique town and gown community. A relatively conservative campus and its surrounding city were changed profoundly by students, who for the most part mobilized around purely local and very personal issues, including dormitory hour restrictions for women students on campus. . . . Summing Up: Highly recommended.
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More than other local histories of campus activism during this period, Dissent in the Heartland introduces national themes and events, and successfully places Indiana University into that context. The research in primary sources, including FBI files, along with numerous interviews, is superior, and the writing is lucid and at times provocative.
-- Terry H. Anderson
More than other local histories of campus activism during this period, Dissent in the Heartland introduces national themes and events, and successfully places Indiana University into that context. The research in primary sources, including FBI files, along with numerous interviews, is superior, and the writing is lucid and at times provocative.
-- Terry H. Anderson
This splendid historical piece demonstrates an important point: how the convergence of local events and values associated with the civil rights, antiwar, and women's movements of that era transformed the culture of a unique town and gown community. A relatively conservative campus and its surrounding city were changed profoundly by students, who for the most part mobilized around purely local and very personal issues, including dormitory hour restrictions for women students on campus. . . . Summing Up: Highly recommended.
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Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction to the New Edition
Introduction
Prologue
1. The Dawn of Dissent
2. The Awakening of Activism
3. The Antiwar Movement
4. A Precarious Peace
5. Student Rights/Civil Rights: African Americans and the Struggle for Racial Justice
6. The Women's Movement: An Idea Whose Time Had Come
7. Bloomington and the Counterculture in Southern Indiana
Epilogue: The End of an Era at Indiana University
Epilogue to the New Edition
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
