Why is the attorney general so comfortable using force against protesters? In 1968, as a college freshman, he thought they were getting in his way.
In recent days, commentators have compared 2020 to America’s other, 1968. That year packed in the Tet Offensive, the murders of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., police riots in Chicago, the end of a presidency and Nixon’s ascendancy, not to mention plenty more misery and conflict around the world. One other event in 1968 that garnered front-page attention day after day for a week in thewas the student takeover at Columbia University.
As with today’s activists, there was a range of political convictions among Columbia protesters. On the far edge was a small, seemingly self-appointed vanguard who wanted to force a clash with the police. “Nothing radicalizes like the Cossack’s whip” became their refrain. The African American students, together in a single building, were just as committed ideologically but more cautious in approach.
Left: Members of the Majority Coalition outside Low Library, which protesters had occupied, April 28, 1968. Right: Barr, center, standing among Majority Coalition members on the Columbia campus, April 24, 1968. | Columbia University Archives, Rare Book & Manuscript Library; Gerry Upham from the collection of Paul Cronin
The Majority Coalition didn’t do much. Their big happening, their one active step to challenge the protesters, took place on April 28, when they installed themselves in a line around Low Library, one of the occupied buildings. The blockade—an attempt to prevent anyone from leaving, and food from going in—was really just for show. But even as it became something of a circus, it was also powerfully symbolic.
that he was on the front line of the “fistfight” but wasn’t injured because he was on the side of football players and picked his opponents carefully. “Over a dozen people went to the hospital, between the two groups, when they tried to rush through,” he told theBarr, now the top law and order man of the Trump administration, toldlast year that the incident on campus when he was still in his teens was crucial in focusing his priorities.
Barr’s group got what it wanted in 1968. The protests were eventually forcibly ended by the New York Police Department—though it may have come at a cost.
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