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.

Sunday, September 24, 2017

Plus ça change: Black Students Occupy Willard Straight Hall

In an eerie replay of events from 1969, several hundred black students occupied the Cornell student union building this week to protest racism and recent racist incidents on campus.  Since I had seen the original events, a reporter from the Cornell Daily Sun called me to get my reaction to the current occupation.  In the story (see link below) in the Sun, I was quoted as follows:


Almost 50 years after that incident, we’re still plagued with the same problems: This issue of racism, more generally, but also specific cases of racist actions on campus.

 Black Cornell Students Occupy Willard Straight Hall


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