50 Years Later: The Columbia University Student Protests of 1968

On April 23, 1968, Columbia University students began a nonviolent campus takeover that lasted nearly a week, and ended with the bloody removal of students from five occupied buildings. 50 years later they reflect on the movement.
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[@pibly7784]

I was 21 days old when this happened. What a turbulent year.

[@sambradley2975]

Columbia is a big school, I delivered a package to the science department & I got lost along the way.

[@catherineerwin8269]

What a time! So wish that i were there to join them in protesting...

[@Slickmickyoyo97]

YES! I bet you live to ingratiate your massive ego with your petulant and incessant rallying.

[@floresmercedes1]

I was there with my mother.

[@JerryDLTN]

Now happens everyday someone is offended

[@WhocaresWhy44]

The people known for fighting city hall. (Clint Eastwood, Firefox as Mitchell Gant to a Jewish Soviet Dissident) marched on Low Library and all that. Now the Jewish Students and non Jewish Students must stand outside barricades. Some of the Coeds at the barricades are young enough to be Eisenberg's granddaughter. Such irony.

[@michaelmckenna3978]

i was there. On the blackboards the students wrote "Lenin won, Fidel won, and now we will win". Yhe buildings had Viet Long flags flying from the buildings.

[@protestfolk]

Although Columbia University President Kirk resigned from Institute for Defense Analyses [IDA]'s executive committee and IDA board of trustees and Columbia University presidency in summer of 1968, Columbia University Life Trustee and CBS board member William A.M. Burden (who was also the U.S ambassador to Belgium who, in 1960-61 period, pushed for the overthrow of the democratically-elected government of Patrice Lumumba in the Congo) remained on IDA's board of trustees until the late 1970s; and, because some Columbia University professors continued to be allowed by the Columbia University administration to continue to do secret Vietnam War-related weapons research on campus as members of IDA's Jason Division of university scientists after 1968, anti-war students at Columbia University again occupied Columbia University campus buildings in April 1972, as shown in the video about 1972 protests at Columbia at following link: ua-cam.com/video/pPOwxGuxlX0/v-deo.html.

[@damianrendon21]

"They were beaten mercilessly" *proceeds to laugh

[@nomylearnspalestine]

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[@stephenconnelly7216]

Based

[@the_discordian_revolution]

not as funny when it's your daughter

[@nomylearnspalestine]

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