Student Protests.

For many, student protests are remembered as synonymous with the 1960s. At first associated with the civil rights movement, protests spread as college students soon found other reasons for demanding change in the status quo: at Berkeley, California, for example, the 1964 free-speech movement led students around the country to attack their universities as huge impersonal places, with largely irrelevant curricula. By 1965 and 1966 the more-radical students found another cause — "the illegal war in Vietnam." Starting out as teach-ins at colleges and universities across the country in 1965, the protests against the war grew to huge marches and rallies by decade's end.

Dow and the Vietnam War.

Dow was one of America's largest chemical corporations and had a fine reputation. Although its major business involved selling chemicals to other companies, most consumers knew the firm as the maker of the convenient...