Harlem vs. Columbia University: Black Student Power in the Late 1960s
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Harlem vs. Columbia University: Black Student Power in the Late 1960s

Harlem vs. Columbia University: Black Student Power in the Late 1960s

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Stefan M. Bradley (Author)  

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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 protested the school's ill-conceived plan to build a large, private gymnasium in the small green park that separates the elite university from Harlem. Railing against the university's expansion policy, protesters occupied administration buildings and met violent opposition from both fellow students and the police.In this dynamic book, Stefan M. Bradley describes the impact of Black Power ideology on the Students' Afro-American Society (SAS) at Columbia. While white students--led by Mark Rudd and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)--sought to radicalize the student body and restructure the university, black students focused on stopping the construction of the gym in Morningside Park. Through separate, militant action, black students and the black community stood up to the power of an Ivy League institution and stopped it from trampling over its relatively poor and powerless neighbors. Bradley also compares the events at Columbia with similar events at Harvard, Cornell, Yale, and the University of Pennsylvania. 15 black and white photographs, 1 map CPSIA choking or other US hazard warning - No California Proposition 65 hazard warning necessary
Stefan M. Bradley is an associate professor of history and African American studies at Saint Louis University.
  • Contributor: Stefan M. Bradley
  • Imprint: University of Illinois Press
  • ISBN13: 9780252034527
  • Number of Pages: 272
  • Packaged Dimensions: 152x229x25mm
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: University of Illinois Press
  • Release Date: 2009-07-15
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Stefan M. Bradley is an associate professor of history and African American studies at Saint Louis University.

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