Harlem vs. Columbia University : Black student power in the late 1960s / Stefan M. Bradley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bradley, Stefan M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American student movements--New York (State)--New York--History.

African American student movements.

Black power--New York (State)--New York--History.

Black power.

Morningside Park (New York, N.Y.)--History.

Morningside Park (New York, N.Y.).

Columbia University--Student strike, 1968.

Columbia University.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 pages) : illustrations, maps, plates

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Harlem versus Columbia University

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

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.

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 separation

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613063854

9781283063852

1283063859

9780252090585

0252090586

OCLC:

785781169