Barbara Becker Agte

Kent Letters Barbara Becker Agte

Kent State University student massacre May 4, 1970. Letters from students present at the demonstrations and subsequent student killings by US National Guardsmen. English teacher, on faculty at Kent State at the time, gave her students the opportunity to write to her about their feelings of what happened on campus at Kent State on that infamous day. She had 32 responses in the format of essays and poems. Ms Agte has kept them for these 40 plus years, holding much value to her. She is now sharing them with the world.