May 14 1970: The Night the Administration Building Didn’t Burn Down
Forty years ago in 1970 began what a lot of us called the “Days of May.” It was the most massive student strike in US history. Frustration over years of war, racism and repression boiled over when President Nixon ordered the US invasion of neutral Cambodia on April 30, 1970.
On May 1, campuses around the nation rose up in mass demonstrations. There was widespread vandalism of Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) facilities as well as other symbols of the military. Thousands of police and soldiers were sent to US campuses to try and break the strike and crush the demonstrations. Read more