Summary Of Gym Crow Must Go ! By Stefan Bradley

Bradley, Stefan. “” Gym Crow Must Go!” Black Student Activism at Columbia University, 1967-1968.” The journal of African American History the History of Black Student Activism 88.2 (2008): 163-81. Print. In Stefan Bradley’s journal article “Gym Crow Must!” Bradley goes over the idea about the acts of black students during 1960’s such as sit-ins, strikes and marches. He states the actions of the Colombia University students and the surrounding community during this protest. He explains different ways in which the students in the SDS and SAS ran the organizations. Bradley’s focus on the black activism as well as how both groups had a common activity in rebelling against Colombia University. Bradley makes clear that he is more supportive of the SAS than SDS, his claim is that if they

Unlike the SAS’ willingness to take up such an issue just to support the new surge of Black Power, the mostly white group, the SDS, cautiously picked up the issue to oppose the authority of Columbia University. The SDS, however, did support the Civil Rights Movement and, right after the assassination of Martin Luther King stated that they opposed construction of the gymnasium to, “honor the fallen civil rights activist” (Bradley 5).

Bradley credibility is backed by the many other works he uses throughout his article. He uses other authors to back his argument that SAS wouldn’t have been as affective if they didn’t segregate from the SDS. Authors such as Stokely Carmichael and Charles V. Hamilton they are the authors of Black Power, the achievement of Black Power for black people meant going through the process of “self-definition” and “political modernizations”. Overall, Bradley is a very creditable source; he is a multi-published doctoral student of history, but his biases also shows a passion about the subject at