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He would go on to join a left-wing terrorist group called the Weather Underground that bombed banks and government buildings to spark a revolution. MARK RUDD: When we stand up and say the students of Columbia University will not be students in a university that exploits Black people, and we're not going to let anyone turn us around.īURNETT: That's the voice of Mark Rudd, the 20-year-old leader of the student revolt at Columbia. In 1968, student activists at Columbia University were protesting plans to build a gymnasium in a public park in Harlem that had angered the neighborhood. MCGUIRE: (Singing) Tell me over and over and over again, my friend, how you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.īURNETT: In the late '60s, America reckoned with the war in Vietnam, racial apartheid in the South, environmental degradation, women's rights and students rights. JOHN BURNETT, BYLINE: It was a time of change, of upheaval, of disunion. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, 'EVE OF DESTRUCTION')īARRY MCGUIRE: (Singing) Disintegrating. And as NPR's John Burnett reports, it seems we're back there again.

Look to the 1960s - there was political violence, rage in the streets, cultural convulsions.

You don't have to go back to the Civil War to find a time when we were such dis-United States.

#Barry mcguire on npr echoes how to

America is polarized over nonexistent election fraud, vaccines, gender politics, how to teach about race, an ex-president - the list goes on.