Title: Columbia 1968 | The Sticking Place
Headings: Columbia 1968
Columbia 1968
The Role and Responsibility of Democratic Citizenship
The Role of the University in American Society
Racial Justice in Sixties America
Participatory Democracy
1968: End of an Era
from Sticking Place Films

Content: A complete 850-page transcript is forthcoming. The project is a piece of the 1968 trilogy. Various related books in progress: an assemblage of photographs and statements from the students who took them, and a volume of illustrated essays, plus a three-volume collection of primary documents ( Organising, Occupation and Reconstruction) and two of secondary sources ( Commentary ). When the country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears,
it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir. Thomas Paine
Columbia’s problem is the problem of America in miniature. Tom Hayden
April 1968. Hundreds of emboldened Columbia University students, many allied to two groups – Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and Students’ Afro-American Society (SAS) – take direct action against what they regard as their university’s racist and militaristic policies by barricading themselves inside five buildings on campus. All of them together, behind locked doors, with a unified vision, issuing demands: