Recent campus demonstrations at Columbia, Yale,
USC and elsewhere regarding the Israel Hamas war are just
the latest chapter of American College campuses becoming grounds for
protest.
At Kent State University in 1970,
a Vietnam War protest turned deadly when four people were
shot dead by National Guardsmen just days later.
Tensions between police and students at historically black Jackson State
University.
Resulted in two deaths. In 1964,
black students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College peacefully
sat in at a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro.
In 1964, UC Berkeley students protested the school's restrictions on
political activities on campus.
About two decades later, colleges in California saw large scale
demonstrations calling on schools to pull investments from companies doing
business with South Africa's apartheid government.