Old school: U-M in History

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Draft protest


Students on Liberty and Main streets in Ann Arbor in 1968 protest the draft. — Courtesy Bentley Historical Library
 

This month in history (47 years ago)

Erskine Caldwell, author of “God’s Little Acre” and “Tobacco Road,” told the audience gathered to see him at the Michigan Union Ballroom that “because fiction is
the dramatic account of possible human actions which bring out the emotions of comedy and tragedy, writing must be the interworking of much experience and imagination.” — The Michigan Daily

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