New Haven’s 1970 May Day Protest
Protesters in the streets. National Guard troops deployed against U.S. citizens. Sounds like scenes ripped from recent headlines, but these events date back to May Day, 1970, when New Haven became a flashpoint in a nationwide struggle. Let us peer back through the mists of history and vagaries of memory to a time that seems so different than our own yet is all too familiar in many respects. The sixties were a time … Continued
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NHFPL Partners with Arts and Ideas and the NEA Big Read to Celebrate The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
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