@inbook{10.7591/j.cttq432t.9,
 ISBN = {9780801436536},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.cttq432t.9},
 abstract = {Like an omen, Martin Luther King’s murder occurred just hours after the Afro-American Society carried out the central act of the McPhelin affair, a quasi-violent takeover of the Economics Department offices. These two events galvanized the militant AAS faction; the McPhelin incident also pitted claims of academic freedom against claims of racial justice in the starkest manner possible. This was the first time that the conflict had erupted onto the public stage at Cornell, and the administration’s response set a precedent of avoidance that would come to haunt the university. In short, the McPhelin affair was a trial run for},
 bookauthor = {Donald Alexander Downs},
 booktitle = {Cornell '69: Liberalism and the Crisis of the American University},
 edition = {1},
 pages = {68--96},
 publisher = {Cornell University Press},
 title = {RACIAL JUSTICE VERSUS ACADEMIC FREEDOM},
 year = {1999}
}