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Willard Straight Occupation Study Guide: Articles

Magazine/Journal Articles

  • “Ascent of Tom Jones.” William E. Cox, Black Issues in Higher Education, vol. 11 no. 17: 25, 20 October 1994.
  • Childs, C. “Black Studies at Cornell: The Troubled Path to Understanding.” Life, 68: 56-60, 17 April 1970.
  • "James Turner Reflects on the 20th Anniversary of the Willard Straight Takeover." Africana Studies & Research Center Newsletter volume 1, number 1, spring 1989, 11-13.
  • “Guns Come to Cornell: With a Report by C. Childs.” Life 66: 20-27, 2 May 1969.
  • “It Can’t Happen Here, Can it?” Newsweek. 73: 26-30. 5 May 1969.
  • “Once an Armed African-American Revolutionary, He Now Establishes a Racial Harmony Award at Cornell.” The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, 30 June 1995, 46.
  • Thelwell, Michael. “Two Black Radicals Report on Their Campus Struggles.” Ramparts Magazine 8: 47-48, July 1969.
  • Strout, Cushing. “Sixties Protest Culture and What Happen at Cornell.” New England Review, vol. 19, issue 2, 110.
  • Ying, Ma. “The Ugly Shadow of ’69.” American Enterprise, vol. 10, issue 6: 78, 1 November 1999.

Puliter Prize Photo

photo from <em>Newsweek</em> of Eric Evans and Edward Witfield, leading students out of Willard Straight.

Eric Evans and Edward Witfield, leading students out of Willard Straight.

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