Dive into the life of writer Betty Smith, who spent years in Ann Arbor with her first husband. During her time in Ann Arbor, she audited playwriting classes and learned from Kenneth Thorpe Rowe.
women at Michigan
In 1961, the Kennedy Ad-ministration sent the U-M Symphony Band to the Soviet Union in hopes of thawing relations between the two countries through the common language of music. Could young musicians succeed as diplomats?
Music
Early in his tenure as director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover called Emma Goldman “the most dangerous woman in America.” While not widely known, this dangerous woman spoke in Ann Arbor on several occasions.
women at Michigan
Horace Greely Prettyman (1857-1945) was a Michigan football hero in the 1880s, when the sport had scarcely begun. He scored Michigan’s first-ever home-field touchdown, and he was the only Wolverine ever elected captain for three years. But his larger impact came later, as host and father figure to a generation of Michigan students.
U-M football
As Roger Rapoport said himself, “No one ever has a good word for the multiversity” — the 1960s term for universities grown too big and powerful to serve the public good. And in 1967, one might have expected any student but Rapoport, the quintessential campus gadfly of the Vietnam era, to speak up for the University of Michigan. But so he did, in the pages of one of the nation’s most prestigious magazines, the Atlantic Monthly.
1960s