1968 was one of the worst years in American history. In the middle of that year was the worst Democratic National Convention in history. In Chicago. When the Democrats convene in the same place ...

Right now, presidential candidates are crisscrossing the country, begging primary voters for their support. So it's easy to forget that not too long ago, these voters had no say in who their party ...

It is also the 50th anniversary of the Chicago convention — the Democrats’ convention in Chicago in 1968. That was a famously tumultuous affair. And there is a new musical called ...

Fran Sullivan, an Oak Park activist on several fronts and member of the upstart 1972 Illinois Democratic Convention ...

Kennedy was assassinated, Vice President Hubert Humphrey secured the 1968 Democratic nomination ... for then-groundbreaking ...

In August 1968, thousands of anti-war protesters gathered near the Democratic National Convention and surged toward lines of helmeted police bearing clubs and tear gas. The protestors called them ...

This year’s Democratic National Convention is in Chicago ... Democrats have flocked to the city 10 more times, including in 1968, when party leaders clashed with Vietnam War protesters.

the kind of social and political discontent that sparked the riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention could return with new force in 2016, erupting at one or both of the summer’s ...

The Democratic National Committee announced that the ... that 2024 could be a repeat not of 1996, but the infamous 1968 Chicago convention, which, under similar political tensions, "was a ...

ABUJA: National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Samuel Anyanwu has declared that he was elected at a national convention and can only be removed at a national convention.

which has drawn comparisons to the 1968 DNC. A Chicago convention deserves local Chicago coverage, and I’m here to help you decode the DNC. During the Democratic National Convention and through ...

Two months later, the Democratic National Convention was punctuated by violent ... Throughout much of the early campaign in 1968, Wallace’s wife and governor of Alabama, Lurleen Wallace, was ...