THE COLUMBIA COALITION: AFRICAN AMERICANS, NEW LEFTISTS, AND COUNTERCULTURE AT THE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PROTEST OF 1968.

The article examines the counterculture at the Columbia University Protest of 1968, particularly the relationship between African American and white students, and political and cultural radicalism. It offers a thorough analysis of how Columbia's communes grappled with conflicts rooted in political and social difference. It seeks to explain the rise and rapid deterioration of this consensus at Columbia. The internal space that the protestors created and occupied is also explored in order to understand how the Columbia coalition resolved the radical differences between protestor ideologies.