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The Columbia coalition: African Americans, new Leftists, and counterculture at the Columbia University protest of 1968.(RACE IN AMERICAN LIFE)(Essay)
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Journal of Social History
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June 22, 2008
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Tom Hayden was not a student at Columbia University. Still, at two o'clock on the morning of April 26, 1968, he found himself "joining a silhouetted wave of students surging across Columbia's grounds and entering, with a key volunteered by a graduate student, the darkened shell of Mathematics Hall." (1) James Kunen was among this "wave of students" that liberated the fifth academic building and created the final commune of 1968's most famous American student protest. In the ensuing days, Hayden--author of the New Left's unofficial founding document, the Port Huron Statement--and Kunen--soon-to-be author of the obscure memoir of the protest, The Strawberry ...
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