THIS DAY IN HISTORY

Student Rage Simmers in Opposition to War

56 years ago and today-on Columbia University’s campus

Current student protest at Columbia University in New York. Photo credit AP News

Fifty six years ago, on April 23, students began a two-pronged protest on the campus of New York’s Columbia University. Black students were protesting the building of a gym that, not only took land from Harlem to build, it was designed to have…