Resistance and Revolution: The Anti-Vietnam War Movement at the University of Michigan, 1965-1972

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Confirming booked rooms for the teach-in that occurred in Angell Hall March 25-26th, 1965

Teach-in Confirmation.pdf
Administration began to cooperate with faculty organizers of the teach-in after they switched from the idea of a work moratorium. Gamson states, in a panel discussion at the Teach-in +50: War on the Planet, the administration helped them book rooms.

Governor George Romney responds to Professor Kaufman's Nation article about the teach-in.

Arnold Kaufman:Romney (1).pdf
Governor Romney responds to Professor Kaufman's Nation article about the teach-in because Kaufman criticizes Romney for disagreeing with the event. Romney took offense to this criticism and wanted to clarify his support for open discussion presented…

University makes a statement about student reclassification

UofM Statement on Rankings-1965.pdf
The University denounces Selective Service's reclassification of University of Michigan students who were involved in a sit-in at the Selective Service Office. Administrator Dr. Cutler calls reclassification for anything other than grades…

IUC National Teach-In Map

IUC Teach-In Map.pdf
The Inter-University Committee for a Public Hearing on Vietnam distributed this map along with other promotional materials in advance of the National Teach-In held May 15, 1965.

Complaint to Michigan State Police about Antiwar Activists

Complaint to Michigan Police.pdf
The Michigan State Police received this complaint from a member of the audience at an Angell Hall meeting held by the Faculty-Student Committee to End the War in Vietnam, April 7, 1965.

Faculty-Student Committee Invitation to McGeorge Bundy

Faculty-Student Committee Letter to Bundy.pdf
The Faculty-Student Committee sent this invitation to speak at UM to National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy before deciding to invite him to the National Teach-In in Washington instead.

See below for full transcript of President Lyndon Johnson's speech at University of Michigan.

LBJ UM Commencement 1964.pdf
President Lyndon Johnson's speech at University of Michigan about the "War on Poverty."

IUC Fund Appeal for National Teach-In

IUC Fund Appeals Mills.pdf
The Inter-University Committee for a Public Hearing on Vietnam included this fundraising appeal, with its lengthy excerpt from New Left intellectual C. Wright Mills, on the back cover of the program for the National Teach-In.

SDS Newsletter in July 1964.

Newsletter SDS.pdf
An SDS newsletter including reports from all cities involved in ERAP.

IUC, "The Meaning of the National Teach-In"

IUC Meaning of National Teach-In 1965.pdf
The Inter-University Committee set forth its philosophy in this pamphlet. The four-page version below includes an article by IUC member and University of Chicago political scientist Hans Morgenthau, "We Are Deluding Ourselves in Vietnam."

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