FIRST "TEACH-IN" HELD AT UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
Ann Arbor, Michigan (JFK+50) On March 24, 1965, the first "Teach-In" in protest of the war in Vietnam was held at the University of Michigan here in Ann Arbor.
The event was attended by 3500 students and 210 faculty members with the support of the university administration.
It was sponsored by Students In A Democratic Society* and included lectures, debates and music.
Main lecturers included Robert Browne of Farleigh Dickinson University, John Donahue of Michigan State University and Arthur Waskow of the Institute for Policy Studies.
Mr. Waskow said...
"We have not learned that the political freedom of the Vietnamese people cannot be advanced by a military policy that relies on burning villages with napalm and torturing the villages for information."
*Students For A Democratic Society was a national student activist organization founded in 1960. SFDS was conceived as an exercise in 'participatory democracy' including 300 college chapters and 30,000 members.
