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A protester sits in the President's chair

So many protests to choose from...

The Bonus Army marches down Broadway

October 1935: Protest against Casa Italiana over the Italian invasion of Ethiopia

April 20, 1967: anti-Vietnam recruitment protest by SDS in John Jay Hall turns into a violent melee with rightwing students

April 23-30, 1968: The protest to end all protests. Not really. The 1968 protests surrounded the construction of the Morningside Park Gymnasium, Government funded science research, and CIA recruitment on campus.

1970: Black students take over ROTC lounge. Administration agrees to make it the Malcolm X Lounge which still stands.

1960s-1985: Students protest for divestment from South Africa, culminating in a 1985 takeover of Hamilton. Administration agrees to divest, although they didn't do so fully until 1991.

1987: A mob of white students beat a black student, Mike Jones, and a couple of his friends outside Ferris Booth Hall. Black students mobilize on campus, take over Hamilton. Professor Marcellus Blount was arrested during these protests. The demands led to the creation of the Intercultural Resource Center.

1992: Students again take over Hamilton Hall, protesting Columbia's plans to turn the Audubon Ballroom, the site of Malcolm X's assassination, into a biotech research facility

1996: Students go on hunger strike, and occupy Low and Hamilton for the establishment of an Ethnic Studies Department. Three years later they get a center with no hiring power.

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