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.

Friday, March 23, 2018

Columbia Revisits its 1968 Uprising; Shouldn't Cornell do the same for 1969?

Columbia had their own student takeover in April 1968, just a year before Cornell's.  Former participants in the Columbia events were revisiting those events from 50 years ago, as reported in the New York Times.  Columbia's Uprising: A 50-Year-Old Legacy

Shouldn't Cornell do the same in the spring of next year?  Invite some of the participants, observers, and book authors back to reflect on the meaning of those momentous events.
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