Kent State: Death and Dissent in the Long Sixties

by Thomas M. Grace

On 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625341113
• ISBN13: 9781625341112
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"