Hamilton Hall is an academic building on the Morningside Heights campus of Columbia University on College Walk at 1130 Amsterdam Avenue in Manhattan, New York City, serving as the home of Columbia Col
The facade of Hamilton Hall at the entrance, with the statue of Alexander Hamilton prominent in front of the building
Hamilton Hall (left), new home of Columbia College, and Hartley Hall, the college's first dormitory, in 1907
A banner hangs after protesters occupied the building, renaming it "Hind's Hall" for Hind Rajab. William Ordway Partridge's 1908 statue of Alexander Hamilton is in the foreground.
NYPD using a Lenco Bearcat vehicle to break into the university hall to clear it of protesters, April 30, 2024.
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
Hamilton Hall (Columbia University)
…occupied at several times by student protest movements at Columbia: it was occupied and renamed Malcolm X Liberation College in honor of Malcolm X in 1968; Mandela Hall for Nelson Mandela in 1985; and Hind's Hall for Hind Rajab in 2024. The original Hamilton Hall was built in 1878 in the Gothic Revival…
A collage of student protest and police repression at Columbia in 1968, published in Helix vol. 3, 7th ed., May 9, 1968