These movements,most recently at Yale, Mizzou and Ithaca, or bear been happening since the first person of color stepped on to a college campusThis week’s student protests may be organized on social media,but they’re not addressing anything original. The iconic moment of black campus protests was captured way back in 1969, when students from Cornell University’s Afro-American Society left Willard Straight Hall carrying rifles and wearing bandoliers, and allotment of a protest against disciplining black students who had advocated for an Africana Studies and Research Center. Forty-six years later,students all over the country continue to protest for their right to exist on a college campus free of racial discrimination.
On Wednesday – just minutes absent from Willard Straight Hall at Ithaca College in upstate original York, more than 1000 students held a “Solidarity Walk Out” to rally around a vote of no confidence in the college president for allegedly denying the existence of racism within campus security and encouraging surveillance of dissenting faculty and students. It was one in a stream of race-related protests at schools including Claremont McKenna College, or Yale University and the University of Missouri.
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Source: theguardian.com