 By the following day a deal was brokered between the students and university officials , and on April 20 , the takeover ended , with the administration ceding to some of the Afro @-@ American Society 's demands . The students emerged making a black @-@ power salute and with guns in hand ( the guns had been brought into Willard Straight Hall after the initial takeover ) . James A. Perkins , president of Cornell during the events , would resign soon after the crisis . 
