TY - GEN T1 - A time to stir : Columbia '68 A2 - Cronin, Paul LA - English PP - New York PB - Columbia University Press YR - 2018 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1001968680 AB - For seven days in April 1968, students occupied five buildings on the campus of Columbia University to protest a planned gymnasium in a nearby Harlem park, links between the university and the Vietnam War, and what they saw as the university's unresponsive attitude toward their concerns. Exhilarating to some and deeply troubling to others, the student protests paralyzed the university, grabbed the world's attention, and inspired other uprisings. Fifty years after the events, A Time to Stir captures the reflections of those who participated in and witnessed the Columbia rebellion. With more than sixty essays from members of the Columbia chapter of Students for a Democratic Society, the Students' Afro-American Society, faculty, undergraduates who opposed the protests, "outside agitators," and members of the New York Police Department, A Time to Stir sheds light on the politics, passions, and ideals of the 1960s. Moving beyond accounts from the student movement's white leadership, this book presents the perspectives of black students, who were grappling with their uneasy integration into a supposedly liberal campus, as well as the views of women, who began to question their second-class status within the protest movement and society at large. A Time to Stir also speaks to the complicated legacy of the uprising. For many, the events at Columbia inspired a lifelong dedication to social causes, while for others they signaled the beginning of the chaos that would soon engulf the left. Taken together, these reflections present a nuanced and moving portrait that reflects the sense of possibility and excess that characterized the 1960s. OP - 438 CN - LD1250 .T56 2018 SN - 9780231544337 SN - 0231544332 SN - 9780231182744 SN - 0231182740 KW - Columbia University : Student strike, 1968. KW - Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.). : Columbia University Chapter. KW - Columbia University. : Students' Afro-American Society. KW - Columbia University KW - Columbia University. : Students' Afro-American Society KW - Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.). : Columbia University Chapter KW - Student movements : New York (State) : New York : History : 20th century. KW - African American student movements : New York (State) : New York : History : 20th century. KW - Student protesters : New York (State) : New York : Biography. KW - Mouvements étudiants : New York (État) : New York : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - Mouvements étudiants noirs américains : New York (État) : New York : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - Manifestants étudiants : New York (État) : New York : Biographies. KW - HISTORY : United States : 20th Century. KW - African American student movements KW - Student movements KW - Student protesters KW - New York (State) : New York KW - 1900-1999 KW - Biographies KW - History ER -