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Student paper, with extensive suggestions for revision by a Cornell faculty member, on the incidents of 1969 at Cornell University. Also "A Case Study of a University's Pattern of Error," presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Sept. 1969.

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Interviews with students, faculty, and administrators describe the origins of Black Studies (Afro-American Studies) at Cornell and the various issues on campus in the spring of 1969.

Abstract

The papers of James A. Perkins consist of correspondence, reports, administrative management forms and records, drafts of speeches, correspondence, notes of telephone conversations, memoranda for the record, substantive inter-office notes and memos, commission reports, departmental reports to the President, tape recordings, transcripts, broadsides, a phonodisc, and letters received by the President's Office concerning the events on campus in the Spring of 1969

Scope and content Correspondence, research, lecture notes, memoranda, clippings, leaflets, and items concerning events at Cornell University in 1969-1970 including the occupation of Willard Straight Hall and other student protests. Includes copies of The New Left and Liberal Democracy by Walter Berne; A Case Study of a University's Pattern of Error by Allan P. Sindler, September 1969, for the panel on The New Left and the University; incomplete draft manuscript of Backfire, The Lesson of Cornell, later Open...