Editing Madison, Wisconsin (section)

===1960s and 1970s===
In the 1960s and 1970s, the Madison [[counterculture]] was centered in the neighborhood of Mifflin and Bassett streets, referred to as "Miffland". The area contained many three-story apartments where students and counterculture youth lived, painted murals, and operated the co-operative grocery store, the Mifflin Street Co-op. Residents of the neighborhood often came into conflict with authorities, particularly during the administration of the Republican mayor [[William Dyke|Bill Dyke]]. Dyke was viewed by students as a direct antagonist in efforts to protest the [[Vietnam War]] because of his efforts to suppress local protests. The annual [[Mifflin Street Block Party]] became a focal point for protest, although by the late 1970s it had become a mainstream community party.

During the late 1960s and early 1970s, thousands of students and other citizens took part in [[Opposition to the Vietnam War#Growing protests|anti-Vietnam War marches and demonstrations]], with more violent incidents drawing national attention to the city and UW campus. These included the 1967 student protest of [[Dow Chemical Company]], with 74 injured; the 1969 strike to secure greater representation and rights for African-American students and faculty, which resulted in the involvement of the Wisconsin [[United States National Guard|Army National Guard]]; and the 1970 fire that caused damage to the Army [[ROTC]] headquarters housed in the [[University of Wisconsin Armory and Gymnasium]]. It culminated with the [[Sterling Hall bombing]] in 1970, which was intended to destroy the Army Mathematics Research Center at the university. It caused massive destruction to other parts of the building and nearby buildings as well and resulted in the death of researcher [[Robert Fassnacht]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Reinke|first1=Clifford|title=Van's Blast at UW Center Kills One and Hurts Four|url=http://host.madison.com/archives/topics/pages_from_history/pages-from-history-aug/article_681633c2-41c7-11e5-b7ea-dbea691a063b.html|access-date=October 26, 2017|newspaper=Wisconsin State Journal|date=August 26, 1970|archive-date=October 26, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171026213822/http://host.madison.com/archives/topics/pages_from_history/pages-from-history-aug/article_681633c2-41c7-11e5-b7ea-dbea691a063b.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

These protests were the subject of the 1979 documentary [[The War at Home (1979 film)|''The War at Home'']].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Eleanor Mannikka |date=2012 |title=The War at Home (1979) Review Summary |work=[[The New York Times]] |department=Movies & TV Dept. |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/52754/The-War-at-Home/overview |url-status=dead |access-date=July 10, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120710222747/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/52754/The-War-at-Home/overview |archive-date=July 10, 2012}}</ref> [[David Maraniss]]'s 2004 book, ''[[They Marched into Sunlight]]'', incorporated the 1967 Dow protests into a larger [[Vietnam War]] narrative. Tom Bates wrote the book ''Rads'' on the subject ({{ISBN|0-06-092428-4}}). Bates wrote that Dyke's attempt to suppress the annual [[Mifflin Street Block Party]] "would take three days, require hundreds of officers on overtime pay, and engulf the student community from the nearby Southeast Dorms to [[Langdon Street Historic District|Langdon Street's]] fraternity row. [[Tear gas]] hung like heavy fog across the Isthmus." In the fracas, student activist [[Paul Soglin]], then a city [[alderman]], was arrested twice and taken to [[County jail|jail]]. Soglin was later elected mayor of Madison, serving several times.{{Citation needed|date=May 2025}}