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Why the ‘Streets of Minneapolis’ have echoed with public support – unlike the campus of Kent State in 1970

Why the ‘Streets of Minneapolis’ have echoed with public support – unlike the campus of Kent State in 1970

The president announces an aggressive, controversial policy. Large groups of protesters take to the streets. Government agents open fire and kill protesters. All of these events, familiar from Minneapolis in 2026, also played out at Ohio’s Kent State University in 1970. In my academic writing about the First Amendment,
Gregory P. Magarian, Washington University in St. Louis