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| Students Occupy Hamilton Hall. photo: Don Hogan Charles (c)The New York Times |
What began as a strike, formed by committee, and with a specific set of grievances, snowballed into a full-fledged occupation of campus buildings. Despite various setbacks, internal splits, and generalized chaos of a student occupation, the Columbia protests served as a milepost for the organizational aspects of the student movement, and ramped up the organizational efforts of the Students for Democratic Society (SDS) and other student organizations around the country.
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Wikipedia
Demands of the SDS at Columbia, (17 April 1968)
"At Columbia, Revisiting the Revolutionary Students of 1968," By Jennifer Schuessler. New York Times, 21 Mar 2018
The Strawberry Statement, by James Simon Kunen. Avon (1970)
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