Research Catalog

Title

A time to stir : Columbia '68 / edited by Paul Cronin.

Publication

New York : Columbia University Press, [2018]

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Details

Additional Authors

Cronin, Paul

Description

lxxii, 438 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"For seven days in April 1968, students occupied five buildings on the campus of Columbia University to protest a planned gymnasium in a nearby Harlem park, links between the university and the Vietnam War, and what they saw as the university's unresponsive attitude toward students and faculty. Exhilarating to some and troubling to others, the student protests paralyzed the university, grabbed the world's attention, and inspired other uprisings. Fifty years after the events, A Time to Stir captures the reflections of those who participated in and witnessed the Columbia rebellion. With more than sixty essays from members of the Columbia chapter of Students for a Democratic Society, the Students' Afro-American Society, faculty, undergraduates who opposed the protests, "outside agitators," and members of the New York Police Department, A Time to Stir sheds light on the politics, passions, and ideals of the 1960s. Moving beyond accounts from the student movement's white male leadership, this book presents the perspectives of black students, who were dealing with their uneasy integration into a supposedly liberal campus, as well as the views of women, who increasingly questioned their second-class status within the protest movement and society at large. A Time to Stir also speaks to the complicated legacy of the uprising. For many, the events at Columbia inspired a lifelong dedication to social causes while for others they signaled the beginning of the chaos that would soon engulf Students for a Democratic Society"--

Subject

• Columbia University > Student strike, 1968
• Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.). Columbia University Chapter
• Columbia University. Students' Afro-American Society
• Student movements > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century
• African American student movements > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century
• Student protesters > New York (State) > New York > Biography

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

Sc E 18-386

ISBN

• 9780231182744
• 0231182740

LCCN

2017024004

OCLC

1001563803

Title

A time to stir : Columbia '68 / edited by Paul Cronin.

Publisher

New York : Columbia University Press, [2018]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Local Note

Schomburg copy with dust jacket.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Cronin, Paul, editor.

Research Call Number

Sc E 18-386