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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 398 page hardcover illustrated with photographs. The story of the 1969 student occupation of Harvard's University Hall. The authors were reporters for the student radio station WHRB. Dust jacket has light wear. Book is unmarked, tight and clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition/first printing. Black cloth-covered boards with red lettering and decoration (raised fist), 8 5/8 x 5 7/8 inches, 381 pp., index, b/w photo illustrations, map-illustrated endpapers. Book very good minus (modest spotting to front board; mild spine slant; pages clean and binding tight). Dustcover very good (moderate rubbing and edgewear). "It couldn't happen here, almost everyone said about the oldest and most renowned university in the country. Then on April 9, 1969, a band of students led by the radical wing of SDS seized University Hall." (1722RO081).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: NoNE. PHOTOS (illustrator). STATED FIRST PRINTNG. A RARE TITLE DOCUMENTING UNREST AT HARVARD IN 1969 STATED FIRST PRINTING SOLID CLEAN AND BRIGHT BOUND IN BLACK WITH BRIGHT RED LETTERING AND DESIGN SMALL PREVIOUS OWNERS SIGNATURE.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Daniel Alexander (Authors photograph) (illustrator). First Printing [Stated]. xvi, [2], 381, [1] pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations. Appendix. Index. The DJ has some wear and soiling. The surprise take over of a university building by the SDS brought to light the conflicts and differences between students, between students and faculty and the administration and the demands of the black students on campus. The police came in and ended the takeover but the analysis of the differing positions shows that the struggle is not over. It couldn't happen here, almost everyone said about the oldest and most renowned university in the country. Then, on April 9, 1969, a band of students led by the SDS seized University Hall and disproved the conventional wisdom that put Harvard above such violence. The authors probe the confusion of inflamed and contradictory reports. They identify forces set in motion many months before the event, and follow the gradual hardening of attitudes on issues that divided students, faculty, and administration. The account of the seventeen-hour period during which students occupied University Hall produces striking vignettes--a senior adviser being carried out of the building over the shoulder of a student, the orderly procedures of the insurgents for providing food and supplies, the president of the university watching the police action through field glasses from his house, cops congratulating themselves on a job well done. In the wake of the bust, the story follows the forging of new policies by each faction under the pressures of passionate concern, tight deadlines, and the glare of publicity. As part of the wider anti-war movement of the 1960s, student organizations such as the Harvard chapter of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) ran anti-war activities on campus. In November 1966 for instance, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara was prevented from leaving the campus by a group of about 800 students. Forced from his car, he was hoisted up on the hood of a convertible, where he agreed to answer questions from the crowd on the Vietnam War. A letter signed by 2,700 Harvard undergraduates apologizing to McNamara was sent to him a few days after. A year later, in October 1967, a recruitment visit by Dow Chemicals, which supplied napalm to the military, was interrupted by protests. The Harvard Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) programs drew particular attention, with sit-ins disrupting their meetings. Although the faculty was willing to reduce the programs' privileges, the Harvard Corporation refused to terminate it. These developments, alongside the creation of a degree program in Afro-American studies, led to the events of April 1969. On the night of April 8 to 9, a group of about 300 students, led by the SDS, tacked a list of demands on the door of the home of Nathan Pusey, then President of Harvard. Not only did it call for the abolition of ROTC, but also for lower rent and student involvement in designing the curriculum for the Afro-American studies degree. The demands were later rejected by Pusey as baseless. At noon on April 9, a group of 30 to 70 students entered University Hall, ejecting administrative staff and faculty. While most left the building peacefully, some faculty like assistant dean Archie Epps were forcefully expelled. At 4:15 pm Harvard Yard was closed off by the administration, citing safety concerns. The occupiers were threatened with criminal prosecution and disciplinary action if they did not leave by 4:30. The Boston Globe estimated the number of students inside University Hall to now be about 500, with at least 3000 onlookers in the Yard. At 5 pm, a meeting between moderate students and Dean Fred Glimp was convened at Lowell Lecture Hall, both agreeing on a peaceful resolution of the conflict. In the aftermath of the occupation, a series of reforms began. The ROTC lost the privileges not held by other extracurricular activities by a vote of the faculty later endorsed by the Harvard Corporation. Student representatives got a role in the appo.