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In the Fall of 2022, Matt Jones’s Oral History Techniques class conducted a set of interviews documenting the stories behind the student unrest on Eastern Michigan University’s campus from 1966-1972. Barry Simon was an EMU student in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He was a student activist involved in underground newspaper the Second Coming, and eventually arrested during the People's Lounge incident in McKenny Hall on EMU's campus. Simon would later become the student body president.

Interview Date

Winter 11-29-2022

Keywords

Eastern Michigan University, EMU Archives, EMU Oral History Program, Student Activism, Civil Rights, Kent State, Protests, Ypsilanti, Students for a Democratic Society, Second Coming, People's Lounge, McKenny Hall

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Permission to quote from this oral history should be requested from the University Archives (lib_archives@emich.edu).

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Barry Simon, Oral History Interview, 2022

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