Time Magazine, Strike Harvard, Rage and Reform on Campus (April 18, 1969)

New York: Time Inc., 1969 First edition. Publisher's pictorial wrappers, with a collage by Louis Glanzman featuring the John Harvard statue to the front wrapper. Very good, with rippling to front wrapper and tidemarks to verso, some tears near staples, subscriber label to front wrapper, and light toning to page edges. Overall, a bright copy of this issue covering the 1969 Harvard strike. This April 18, 1969 Time issue features a cover story on the 1969 Harvard strike titled "Harvard and Beyond: The University Under Siege" (pp. 47-56). The article somewhat demonizes the protesters and strikers, opening with the passage, "It finally happened to Harvard, too. In a sequence of confrontations that has now become a deplorable custom of American campuses, a small band of student rebels seized an administration building to protest university policies and to deliberately provoke a crisis." The 1969 Harvard strike centered on a number of concerns by Harvard students and members of the Harvard chapter of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), most notably rent increases and Harvard expansion, the prominent role of the ROTC on campus (and, more generally, Harvard's involvement in the Vietnam War), and the lack of a Black Studies department at Harvard. On April 9th, 1969, several hundred protesting students occupied University Hall. Harvard president Nathan Pusey called in the police to remove the protesters, and a violent clash ensued, which resulted in many student arrests and injuries. This event was followed by an eight-day strike by students and faculty. In the wake of the strike, the ROTC was demoted to an extracurricular activity and eventually phased out of Harvard completely for the remainder of the Vietnam War, and a Department of Afro-American Studies (later re-named the department of African and African American Studies) was established. . First Edition. Original Wrappers. Very Good.