Grayson L. Kirk
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Grayson Louis Kirk was an American political scientist who served as president of Columbia University during the Columbia University protests of 1968. He was also an advisor to the State Department an
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Kirk (right) granting an honoris causa degree to Sukarno (1956)
Grave of Grayson L. Kirk and his wife Marion Sands Kirk at Fairview Cemetery in Jeffersonville, Ohio.
In 1968, a series of protests at Columbia University in New York City were one among the various student demonstrations that occurred around the globe in that year. The Columbia protests erupted over
Grayson L. Kirk
…Grayson Louis Kirk (October 12, 1903 – November 21, 1997) was an American political scientist who served as president of Columbia University during the Columbia University protests of 1968. He was also an advisor to the State Department and instrumental in the formation of the United Nations. Kirk was born to a farmer and schoolteacher…
A collage of student protest and police repression at Columbia in 1968, published in Helix vol. 3, 7th ed., May 9, 1968