KCSB FM is marking the 50th anniversary of when student activists protesting the Vietnam War, poor living conditions and other issues rioted in the streets. On February 25, 1970 a burning dumpster was pushed into the vandalized Bank of America building in Isla Vista.
Tonight, listen to KCSB News coverage of the bank burning, then UCSB Professor Emeritus, Dick Flacks, recalls the time of unrest 50 years ago and what came out of the student activism.
Read more here:
https://www.kcsb.org/special-programming-50th-anniversary-of-the-isla-vista-bank-of-america-burning/
Photo courtesy of Isla Vista Riots Collection, Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library
