Video: '50 Years Later: The Columbia University Student Protests of 1968'

(Tuesday, April 30, 1968, 2:30-5:30 a.m. EDT; during the Columbia University protests of 1968, the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and the Cold War, and the African-American civil rights movement (1954–1968)) — New York City police officers stormed five occupied buildings at Columbia University early today and broke up a week-long student sit-in which had paralyzed the Ivy league campus.

712 demonstrators were arrested and approximately 132 students, 4 faculty members and 12 police officers were injured.

Students had called for the university to cut its ties to research for the Vietnam War and to end construction of an allegedly segregated gymnasium to be constructed in the nearby Morningside Park.

Video: '1968 Columbia University Protest (1969 Documentary Film)'