Cornell '69 : : Liberalism and the Crisis of the American University / / Donald A. Downs.
In April 1969, one of America's premier universities was celebrating parents' weekend—and the student union was an armed camp, occupied by over eighty defiant members of the campus's Afro-American Society. Marching out Sunday night, the protesters brandished rifles, their maxim: "...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (384 p.) :; 25 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the 2012 Paperback Edition
- Acknowledgments
- Cornell University Map
- 1. Overview of the Crisis
- THE ROAD TO THE STRAIGHT
- 2. Student Militancy
- 3. The Rise of Racial Politics
- 4. Racial Justice versus Academic Freedom
- 5. Separation or Integration?
- 6. Progress or Impasse?
- 7. Liberal Justice or Racism?
- THE STRAIGHT CRISIS
- 8. Day 1: The Takeover and the Arming of the Campus
- 9. Day 2: The Deal
- 10. Day 3: A "Revolutionary Situation"
- 11. Day 4: Student Power
- 12. Day 5: A New Order
- THE AFTERMATH
- 13. Reform, Reaction, Resignation
- 14. Cornell and the Failure of Liberalism
- Chronology
- Participants
- Notes
- Index