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War protests, Black Panther Party: Yale alums reflect on Black student movement of 1970s

1970s Yale was place of expanding diversity. That came to a head with the trial of Black Panthers Ericka Huggins and Bobby Seale, which ended in 1972. Two graduates talk protest, changing times.

Constance Royster and Kurt Schmoke
Opinion contributors
Feb. 1, 2022Updated Feb. 3, 2022, 10:58 a.m. ET

In 1970, Yale University's campus was one of many focal points of Black social and academic change – and tensions that had been building across the country over women's rights, the Vietnam War, the Black Panther movement and minority student representation came to a head on May Day of that year.