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Amnesty
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Perkins stands with Eric Evans and David Burak iin Barton to announce the faculty’s nullification of the penalties against the black students. (Photo Credit: Richard A Shulman / Cornell Alumni News)
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United students
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10,000 students vote in affirmation of the Afro-American Society’s demands for nullification during a mass gathering in Barton Hall on April 22. (Photo Credit: Robert W. Bollenbach / Sun Staff)
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Angry faces
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A large metal ash tray is hurled out a window of the Straight after the black students inside ejected a dozen white students, primarily members of the Delta Upsilon fraternity, who had entered the building. (Photo Credit: Richard A Shulman / Sun File Photo)
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The march
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Whitfield and protesters finally leave the Straight, guns in hand, on their way to receive the signatures of Muller and Kennedy. (Photo Credit: N. Eric Weiss / Sun File Photo)
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Peace talks
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Perkins meets with Whitfield and other student leaders to resolve the crisis.
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On the outside
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Protesters gather outside of Barton Hall to urge the faculty to reject the administration’s negotiated compromise with the Afro-American Society. (Photo Credit: Larry Baum / Sun File Photo)
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To the masses
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Thomas Jones ’69 addresses over 10,000 people in Barton Hall on April 22, 1969. (Photo Credit: Richard A Shulman/ Sun File Photo)
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Piercing cries of the bullhorn
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David Burak ’69 yells to a crowd through a bullhorn on Ho Plaza while black students occupied the Straight. Among the crowd were many SDS members. (Photo Credit: Richard A. Shulman / Sun File Photo)
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Full force
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The Sun’s photo of the AAS students leaving the Straight, with a wider lens than the Associated Press photo, captures more of the ensuing action. (Photo Credit: Brian Gray / Sun File Photo)
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Heavily protected
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Armed students line the crest of a hill at 320 Wait Avenue, which would be the brief home of the Africana Center until the building was gutted by a fire in April 1970. (Larry Baum / Sun File Photo)