Cornell '69, 50 Years Later

I was a senior government major at Cornell University in the spring of 1969, when the campus was in turmoil after an armed takeover of the student union building by eighty members of the campus's Afro-American society.

This site is a discussion forum for participants and observers of those events. It was launched at the 40th anniversary of those events, and continues now with the 50th.

To contribute your thoughts and reflections, click on the "Comment" tab at the end of the "Remembering 1969" post or any of the other posts.

Saturday, July 7, 2012

"People Were Ready to Die That Day"

Dale Corson, the Cornell official who helped quell the 1969 protest, and then was named president of the university, died in April, at the age of 97. In the obituary appearing in the New York Times on April 6, Homer Meade, one of the occupiers of Willard Straight Hall, said Dr. Corson had an acute understanding of "how close we were to a Kent State." "He knew a lot of us in that building, and he understood that people were ready to die that day," said Meade.
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