Cornell '69: Liberalism and the Crisis of the American University / Edition 1

ISBN-13: 9780801436536 Publisher: Cornell University Press Publication date: 01/22/1999 Series: Suny Series in Contemporary Edition description: New Edition Pages: 384 Product dimensions: 6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x 1.12(d) Lexile: 1350L (what's this?) Age Range: 18 Years In April 1969, one of America's premier universities was celebrating parents' weekend—and the student union was an armed camp, occupied by over eighty defiant members of the campus's Afro-American Society. Marching out Sunday night, the protesters brandished rifles, their maxim: "If we die, you are going to die." Cornell '69 is an electrifying account of that weekend which probes the origins of the drama and describes how it was played out not only at Cornell but on campuses across the nation during the heyday of American liberalism.Donald Alexander Downs tells the story of how Cornell University became the battleground for the clashing forces of racial justice, intellectual freedom, and the rule of law. Eyewitness accounts