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A scholarly symposium entitled "Legacies of Protest," offering a global perspective before and beyond Kent, Ohio, was held at Kent State University May 2-3, 1995. Protest was examined in an international context, with insight from renown scholars, national media and eyewitnesses to history. They included journalists R. W. Apple Jr., Washington bureau chief of the New York Times; and Charlayne Hunter-Gault, of the MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour; notable political figures linked to legacies for peaceful change, such as former U.S. Senators Eugene J. McCarthy and George McGovern; and current Kent faculty members, some of whom were here 25 years ago.