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The Great Library Sit-In, April 1969 “For three weeks in April the normal business of higher learning was disrupted by dissident student voices echoing the current cry of American colleges in revoluton. Albright was faced with a new attude among students which precipitated actons that were upsetng (but not irresponsible), outspoken (but not revolutonary), exhaustng (but not completely unrewarding). Without resort to violence and without destructon to College property, 600 students out of a 1,200 enrollment staged a sit-in protest of college policies, at the library Sunday April 13, through Friday, April 18th.” Source: Albright Alumnus, Summer 1969 e
