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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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Bradley, Stefan M.
Imprint:	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2009] ©2009
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	Columbia University -- Student strike, 1968. African American student movements -- New York (State) -- New York -- History. Black power -- New York (State) -- New York -- History. African American student movements. Black power. Morningside Park (New York, N.Y.) -- History. New York (State) -- New York. New York (State) -- New York -- Morningside Park. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11301363

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ISBN:	9780252090585 0252090586 9780252034527 1283063859 9781283063852 025203452X
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Harlem vs. Columbia University 9780252034527 (cloth : alk. paper)

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.