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Old school: U-M in History

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Michigan Daily staff assigned to cover the Democratic National Convention in 1968 in Chicago sit for a photograph. — Courtesy Bentley Historical Library

This month in history (74 years ago)

Before the Munich conference at the end of September 1938, an editorial in the Michigan Daily condemned giving in to Nazi Germany. Another urged students to attend a rally on campus to save Czechoslovakia, with warnings that appeasement of Hitler would encourage Nazi aggression. About 250 attended.
— From “The Making of the University of Michigan 1817-1992” by Howard H. Peckham

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