Oral History: Kent State, 1970 Presented by Mike Alewitz at Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library

This April marks 55 years since the Ohio National Guard murdered four Kent State students during a campus protest of the US bombing in Cambodia. Mike Alewitz was a student anti-war organizer at Kent State and witnessed the shootings. This experience forever shaped Alewitz, who has dedicated his life to people’s movements and organizations as an activist, a renowned muralist, teacher, organizer and revolutionary. Mike will discuss the Kent State shootings in relation to other anti-war and social movement actions of the time and in past US History, and what lessons we can learn today.

Registration Required. For grades 7 – Adult.

Mike Alewitz is a New London resident and professor emeritus of mural painting and street art at Central Connecticut State University. His murals are the subject of a book, Insurgent Images, that he co authored with Paul Buhle.

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