Strike! Lafayette Student Activism in 1970

Students protestors, Center Square, Easton

Fifty years ago this May and two weeks before final exams, approximately one-third of Lafayette College students coordinated a strike in protest of the Cambodian incursion in Vietnam. This exhibit in Skillman Library’s Reference Area documents strike activities on campus during the spring of 1970 as well as selections from the anti-war papers of Lafayette College Professor James R. Vitelli.