Margo Doble-Hastings, Oral History Interview, 2022

Margo Doble-Hastings, Oral History Interview, 2022

Jennifer Lipsmeier Guy, Eastern Michigan University
Matt Jones, Eastern Michigan University

Description

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. Margo Doble-Hastings was a student eat EMU during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Margo was a writer for the school newspaper, the Eastern Echo, who wrote the pivotal article comparing Kent State to EMU. This article was the spark that ignited the mass disruption on campus in 1970.