Monday, April 16, 2018 Fire in the Heartland: Kent State, May 4th, and Student Protest in America Categories: Other Local Events Timelines: 1b: Past Events (Unseen Archive)

Where:
Burchfield Penney Art Center
1300 Elmwood Ave.
Buffalo, NY 14222
Date: April 26, 2018
Time: 7-9:00 p.m.

Compelling documentary that examines anti-Vietnam War protests, racism, and violence perpetrated by the government at Kent State University. The story of a generation of students who believed in the 1960s and 1970s that they were not being told the truth about racism, the violence of police and military against protestors, and the long American involvement in the Vietnam War; some paid for their questioning of authority with their lives and all were forever changed.

Panel discussion moderated by Dr. Thomas M. Grace, author of “Kent State: Death and Dissent in the Long Sixties”, will follow. A Buffalo resident, Dr. Grace is also one of the wounded survivors. Panelists include SUNY Buffalo State history professor Dr. John Abromeit, and University at Buffalo history professors Dr. Gail Radford, and Dr. Michael Frisch, Emeritus.

Copies of Dr. Grace’s book will be available for purchase and signing, courtesy of Talking Leaves.

Program is made possible with support from the SUNY Buffalo State Departments of History, Sociology and Political Science