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Harlem Vs. Columbia University:

Black Student Power in the Late 1960s

ISBN-13: 9780252034527
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
By Stefan M. Bradley
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Local release date: 13/09/2009
Format: Hardback 272 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: History [HB]

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Google Preview: 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.; Prologue; Introduction; Chapter 1. Why I Hate You: Community Resentment of Columbia; Chapter 2. Gym Crow: Recreational Segregation in Morningside Park; Chapter 3. Up against the Wall: Columbia's Integrated Protest Effort; Chapter 4. On Our Own: SAS's Self-imposed Separation; Chapter 5. Supporting the Cause: SDS, Protest, and the Bust; Chapter 6. Black Student Power: The Struggle For Black Studies; Chapter 7. Striking Similarities: Columbia, The Ivy League, and Black People; Chapter 8. Is It Over Yet: The Results Of Student and Community Protest; Conclusion; Epilogue: Where Are They Now?; Bibliography; ''This dramatic narrative effectively shows how black students at Columbia, even those from more privileged backgrounds, joined in an alliance of racial solidarity with Harlem's black working-class community. Bradley adds a new dimension to this story by emphasizing the actions and aspirations of the black students.'' Wayne Glasker, author of Black Students in the Ivory Tower: African American Student Activism at the University of Pennsylvania, 1967-1990; Google Preview content

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