Today's Tuscaloosa News has a nice story by Tommy Stevenson on a conference, "“Days of Rage: A 40 Years' Perspective," that the University of Alabama is holding on student protests there in 1970. Looks like a great line-up of academics and participants. The story begins:
On May 6, 1970, University of Alabama students protesting the deaths of four students killed in an anti-war rally at Kent State, set fire to an abandoned building on the UA campus, touching off nearly two weeks of unprecedented unrest at the Capstone and the arrest of dozens of students by UA and Tuscaloosa Police and the Alabama National Guard.
The rest of the story is here.
Update: The T-News' story on the conference is here. I'm sorry I missed the conference yesterday, though I must say that I very much enjoyed talking with Krawiec's class. Check out the video at the T-News story — really worth watching, for the oral history of the protest, including talk of the late Jay Murphy, a long-time UA law professor. I wrote a little bit about Jay Murphy in a short essay I have forthcoming in the inaugural issue of the Alabama Civil Rights Civil Liberties Law Review.
A Crimson White story about the conference is here.
Too bad the title of the conference left out the first part of the subtitle of Todd Gitlin's book: The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage (1987).