Word: white
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Throughout the week blacks had a stranglehold control over the protesting students. The leaders, who remained anonymous until the end of the week, met secretly early in the mornings and emerged at 10 a.m. to explain the day's tactics to white students awaiting orders in the Student Union...
...blacks accepted them warily, often contradicting inflammatory speeches by white radicals during rallies, and together they gave the Wisconsin protest its core of leaders. Black students urged non-violence, knowing that students would go no further, but in large crowds, white radicals sometimes took over the leadership and tried to force confrontations with the police, alienating the blacks' moderate support...
While the week was punctuated with violence, these were usually encounters between Madison police--"first that Dow thing, now this. Let's take a few of them with us"--and white radicals. The National Guard appeared to be having fun playing army for a week. The units Governor Knowles called in were almost exclusively from farm areas -- there was only one unit from Milwaukee, Wisconsin's only center of black population. They could not hold a formation and they were soon bored by all the marching around...
...Wisconsin students to the black protest was strikingly uniform. The black demands represented a legitimate complaint about the university, and sooner or later something would be done to correct it. "The demands will be met eventually, and most of the blacks will be kicked out," one of the active white protestors said, "this doesn't affect me physically even though I suppose it bothers me morally that I'm not going to be punished...
Blacks have vowed to continue their protest this week, but they have asked their white support to return to classes. The situation at Wisconsin -- a stalemate from the beginning -- remains a stalemate now. Wisconsin has had its protest this year; the Guard has gone home. The 13 black demands will now go before university and legislative committees where a few will be adopted in a modified form while university officials sift through demonstration pictures to single out black leaders for punishment...