Strike!

The following week, students returned to President Gallagher’s office to discuss these demands. With a sense that their overtures were not taken seriously, they organized a four-hour occupation of the administration building. Things have only escalated since: smoke bombs, tagged walls, and the word STRIKE painted on campus walls.

Image of a demonstration and protest, with some banners that read: 'Student Power', 'No Fees Please', and 'Tax the Rich'.
Unknown, “Two Photographs from 1969 Demonstration,” CUNY Digital History Archive, accessed September 21, 2021, https://cdha.cuny.edu/items/show/4982.