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Photos from 1960s Wanted by Kent State

Images will be used in May 4 Visitor's Center

wants your photos from the 1960s to help tell the story at the .

The university's call for photos is to highlight the cultural transitions of the 1960s by showing what "people from all walks of life looked like, what they cared about and what they did as they experienced the 1960s."

The photos will be in Gallery I of the May 4 Visitor's Center exhibit, which is set to open in 2012.

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Laura Davis, faculty coordinator for May 4 initiatives at Kent State, said Gallery I in the exhibit depicts the generations experiencing the 1960s in America. The photos will be displayed and formatted in a period manner.

"The photos will give a feel for these times in the lives of everyday Americans," Davis said in an email.

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The May 4 Visitor's Center, which is the museum dedicated to the shootings at Kent State on May 4, 1970, from the National Endowment for the Humanities earlier this year.

The museum will be located in Taylor Hall, not far from the spot where the shootings took place. It will include an interior gallery to immerse visitors in the crucial 24 minutes leading up to the shootings. The overall intent of the museum is to tell the story of the shootings contextualized in the 1960s.

The photo submission form is attached to this article and can be downloaded to submit to Kent State with your photos.


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