For seven days in April 1968, students occupied five buildings on the campus of Columbia University to protest a planned gymnasium in a nearby Harlem park, links between the university and the Vietnam War, and what they saw as the university’s unresponsive attitude toward their concerns. Exhilarating to some and deeply troubling to others, the student protests paralyzed the university, grabbed the world’s attention, and inspired other uprisings. Fifty years after the events, A Time to Stir captures the reflections of those who participated in and witnessed the Columbia rebellion.
With more than sixty essays from members of the Columbia chapter of Students for a Democratic Society, the Students’ Afro-American Society, faculty, undergraduates who opposed the protests, “outside agitators,” and members of the New York Police Department, A Time to Stir sheds light on the politics, passions, and ideals of the 1960s. Moving beyond accounts from the student movement’s white leadership, this book presents the perspectives of black students, who were grappling with their uneasy integration into a supposedly liberal campus, as well as the views of women, who began to question their second-class status within the protest movement and society at large. A Time to Stir also speaks to the complicated legacy of the uprising. For many, the events at Columbia inspired a lifelong dedication to social causes, while for others they signaled the beginning of the chaos that would soon engulf the left. Taken together, these reflections present a nuanced and moving portrait that reflects the sense of possibility and excess that characterized the 1960s.
- Table of Contents
- Foreword, by Paul Berman
- Introduction
- Chronology of Events
- 1. Children of the New Age, by Nancy Biberman
- 2. Inside Alienation, Outside Agitator, by J. Plunky Branch
- 3. Race and the Specter of Strategic Blindness, by Raymond M. Brown
- 4. Liberation News Service and the Columbia Student Revolt, by George Cavalletto
- 5. A Working Class Veteran’s Perspective, by Mark Donnelly
- 6. Constructions of Power, by Thomas Ehrenberg
- 7. You Gave Us Hope, by Carolyn Rusti Eisenberg
- 8. A People’s Prehistory of Columbia, 1968, by Bob Feldman
- 9. “Possibilistes” vs. “Maximalistes”: How It Went Down in Fayerweather, by Larry Garner
- 10. Attempting to “Hold the Center” at Columbia, 1968, by Michael Garrett
- 11. The Man Who Shook My Hand, by Stuart Gedal
- 12. In the Spirit of Reconciliation, by Bennett Gershman
- 13. How I Become a National News Source: Columbia’s Office of Public Information, by Ira Goldberg
- 14. The Jolt of Radicalization, by Ken Greenberg
- 15. Daddy’s Girl, by Lois-Elaine Griffith
- 16. The Columbia Stir-Fry, by Peter Haidu
- 17. The Great Morningside Rising, by Robert W. Hanning
- 18. From Columbia 1968 to Fort Leavenworth, by Susan Eva Heuman
- 19. The Essence of Spirit Is Freedom, by Neal H. Hurwitz
- 20. The Smartest Kids I’d Ever Met: Memories of a Columbia Rebel, by Tom Hurwitz
- 21. Who Be the Dominator?, by Michael Johnson
- 22. The Moral Obligation to Act, by Susan Kahn
- 23. Columbia in the Community, by Thomas M .H. Kappner
- 24. Mutiny in the Air, by Ted Kaptchuk
- 25. Liberated Fayerweather: Agony and Ecstasy While Awaiting the NYPD, by Frank Kehl
- 26. The Special Case of the Fayerweather Occupation, by William Keylor
- 27. A Time for Revolt, by Michael Klare
- 28. Getting Back to “Life as Normal”, by Jay Kriegel
- 29. The Power of Power Structure Research, by Michael Locker
- 30. Days of Whine and Ruses, by Phillip Lopate
- 31. A Time to Stir . . . Up Trouble, by Frederick K. Lowell
- 32. The Primary Shades of Opposition to the Columbia Occupation, by Vaud E. Massarsky
- 33. No More Antiwar! The Rise of the Therapeutic Left, by Michael Neumann
- 34. Already Dead: Inside Low Library Commune, by Hilton Obenzinger
- 35. A Night to Remember, by Fred Pack
- 36. Silence Is Compliance, by Dan Pellegrom
- 37. On the Air: A View from WKCR, by Jon Perelstein
- 38. Columbia and the Draft, by David F. Phillips
- 39. Impressions of a Rookie Cop, by John Poka
- 40. The Sound of Breaking Glass, by Henry Reichman
- 41. Hats and Bats, by Mike Reynolds
- 42. Stopping the Machine, by Eve Rosahn
- 43. Life on the Ledge, by Michael Rosenthal
- 44. How I Learned I Was a Menshevik, by Joshua Rubenstein
- 45. What It Takes to Build a Movement, by Mark Rudd
- 46. Self-Determination and Self-Respect: Hamilton Hall, Fifty Years Later, by William W. Sales Jr.
- 47. Long Ago and Not at All Far Away, by Bill Sharfman
- 48. Columbia 1968: My Course Correction, by Marvin Sin
- 49. Uniters, by Gene Slater
- 50. A Sense of Rightness, by Susan Slyomovics
- 51. Avery Hall to Urban Deadline, by Tyler Smith
- 52. Forming Community, Forging Commitment: A Hamilton Hall Story, by Karla Spurlock-Evans
- 53. From College Walk to the Stonewall Inn, by Peter Stamberg
- 54. Five Red Flags, by Eleanor Stein
- 55. Never Again?, by Michael Steinlauf
- 56. Covering—and Covering Up—Spring ’68, by Michael Stern
- 57. Hundreds of Pairs of Wings, by Johnny Sundstrom
- 58. Political Education and the Birth of Students for a Restructured University, by John Thoms
- 59. It’s Better to Build Up: Post-’68 Governance at Columbia, by Harold S. Wechsler
- 60. A Foot Soldier’s Story of the Sit-Ins, by Meredith Sue Willis
- 61. From Community Service to Political Action: The Evolution of the Citizenship Council, by Joel D. Ziff
- Afterword by Juan Gonzalez
- Index
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