Harlem vs. Columbia University : Black student power in the late 1960s /

In 1968-69, Columbia University became the site for a collision of American social movements. Black Power, student power, antiwar, New Left, and Civil Rights movements all clashed with local and state politics when an alliance of black students and residents of Harlem and Morningside Heights openly...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bradley, Stefan M. (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2009]
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/j.ctt1xcghk
Table of Contents:
  • Why I hate you : Community resentment of Columbia
  • Gym Crow : recreational segregation in Morningside Park
  • Up against the wall : Columbia's integrated protest effort
  • On our own : SAS's self-imposed seperation
  • Supporting the cause : SDS, protest, and the "bust"
  • Black student power : the struggle for Black studies
  • Striking similarities Columbia, the ivy league, and Black people
  • Is it over yet? : the results of student and community protest.