We Shall Not Be Moved

About the Book

We Shall Not Be Moved narrates the story of the Kent State student-led May 4th Coalition and its efforts to maintain untouched the site of the Ohio National Guard’s shooting of thirteen Kent State students. The story is told in a local context of the group’s development and motivations during a long-term conflict between the group, its supporters, the university administration. The story is also told in a much larger context of national polarization over the meaning of the Vietnam War and the peace movement and the preferred historical narrative about the Vietnam era. The book concludes that the May 4th Coalition lost its struggle to save the May 4th site because Americans determining the Vietnam narrative did not believe the protest of 1970 should be honored with saved land.

About the Author

Dr. Miriam R. Jackson grew up in Kent, Ohio. She was finishing her freshman year at Kent State University when she and many others faced the Ohio National Guard on May 4th, 1970. Surviving the gunfire of that day, she finished her B.A. in History in 1973. She earned an M.A. in American history from Columbia University in 1975 and her Ph.D. in American Studies from Purdue University in 1982. She earned an M.A.T. in Social Studies Education at Kent State in 2000 and added middle and high school teaching to other experience at Kent State, Idaho State, Cleveland State and Dine College. She now lives in the same house near the K.S.U. campus where she grew up. This is her first book.