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...strike was a very clear example of SDS participatory democracy," he says...
...SDS national network contributed to the widespread effect of the 1968 and 1969 student protests. Activist leaders watched events on other campuses, learning new tactics and drawing strength from the others' efforts...
...Murray, an SDS organizer at Cornell University during the 1969 protests, says that "in 1968, when Columbia happened, people followed that very closely...
...example, Black students' demands for Afro-American studies courses and a more relevant curriculum came to a head in 1969 at a number of campuses, including Cornell and the University of Wisconsin at Madison. And at Harvard, too, the Black student groups joined the fray, temporarily aligning themselves with SDS anti-war activists after the University Hall takeover...
...despite the violence that shocked the Harvard community, Weiner says the upheaval caused by the SDS takeover here was an important step for the national student movement. He says, "If anti-war students could shut down Harvard, the most prestigious university in the country, then the student anti-war movement was a force to be reckoned with...