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Gloria J. Maloney's avatar

Wow. Thanks for the information. I was visiting the U of M campus nursing school library in Albuquerque every day, studying pregnancy and child development in the spring of 1970 as a pregnant 20-year-old. The library was free to the public. Students protested the war daily, and I had discussions with them and received their literature. We moved back to Rockford, Illinois, a few days before, where the National Guard bayonetted eleven students who were protesting the Kent State incident that happened the week before.

Thanks for preserving history and for taking part in protesting the Vietnam War and the Kent State students' right to protest nonviolently without shots fired at them by the National Guard.

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Hal Brown's avatar

Thanks for sharing your experience. By the way, my partner was a nurse. At MSU three departments shared one small building, Baker Hall. Two were the nursing and social work departments and the third held offices for psychology dept. research assistants. We were among the first departments to go on strike after Kent State so some students made a banner to hang over the door which said "Baker Hall on Strike."

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