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.
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