April 30, 1968 - End of Columbia University Student Strike
The first protest (Mar 28, 1968) occurred eight days before Martin Luther King's assassination (Apr 4, 1968). In response to the Columbia Administration's attempts to suppress anti-IDA student protest on its campus, and Columbia's plans for the Morningside Park gymnasium, Columbia SDS activists and the student activists who led Columbia's Student Afro Society (SAS) held a second, confrontational demonstration on April 23, 1968.The students who occupied the buildings demanded an end to Columbia University's involvement with the IDA, an end to the gym construction project in Morningside Park and amnesty for all participants in the demonstrations. The protests came to a conclusion in the early morning hours of April 30, 1968, when the NYPD violently quashed the demonstrations. The buildings occupied by Whites however were cleared violently as approximately 150 students were injured and taken to hospitals, while over 700 protesters were arrested.
The first protest (Mar 28, 1968) occurred eight days before Martin Luther King's assassination (Apr 4, 1968). In response to the Columbia Administration's attempts to suppress anti-IDA student protest on its campus, and Columbia's plans for the Morningside Park gymnasium, Columbia SDS activists and the student activists who led Columbia's Student Afro Society (SAS) held a second, confrontational demonstration on April 23, 1968.The students who occupied the buildings demanded an end to Columbia University's involvement with the IDA, an end to the gym construction project in Morningside Park and amnesty for all participants in the demonstrations. The protests came to a conclusion in the early morning hours of April 30, 1968, when the NYPD violently quashed the demonstrations. The buildings occupied by Whites however were cleared violently as approximately 150 students were injured and taken to hospitals, while over 700 protesters were arrested.
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