On April 23, 1968, students at New York City’s Columbia University held a demonstration to protest military research and the condemnation of part of the neighboring Morningside Heights section of Harlem to make way for a new student gymnasium. The protest escalated into a week-long occupation of five campus buildings before police moved in. Some 712 students were arrested, and over 100 injured during the forcible eviction. After the university-ordered police response, a student strike shut down the campus for the rest of the semester.
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One Protest (Among Many) in ’68
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With the integration that includes the overwhelming majority of the political left and the military-industrial complex, one no longer imagines a left-wing shut-down of a college or university campus in objection to military research.