Cornell '69 : liberalism and the crisis of the American university / Donald Alexander Downs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Downs, Donald Alexander.

Contributor:

James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cornell University--Strike, 1969.

Cornell University.

Cornell University--Administration--History.

Student movements--United States--History.

Student movements.

Black power--United States--History.

Black power.

Education, Humanistic--United States.

Education, Humanistic.

History.

Administration.

United States.

Physical Description:

x, 359 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 1999.

Summary:

Donald Alexander Downs tells the story of how Cornell University became the battleground for the clashing forces of racial justice, intellectual freedom, and the rule of law. Eyewitness accounts and retrospective interviews depict the explosive events of the day and bring the key participants into sharp focus: the Afro-American Society, outraged at a cross-burning incident on campus and demanding amnesty for its members implicated in other protests; University President James A. Perkins, long committed to x addressing the legacies of racism, seeing his policies backfire and his career collapse; the faculty, indignant at the university's surrender, rejecting the administration's concessions, then reversing itself as the crisis wore on.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 324-354) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

ISBN:

0801436532

OCLC:

40359269