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'Riot' at Sir George Williams: Giving Meaning to Student Dissent
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'Riot' at Sir George Williams: Giving Meaning to Student Dissent
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An examination of the January 1969 student occupation of Montreal's Sir George Williams University (now part of Concordia University) computer centre over charges of racial discrimination by a faculty member. What began as a peaceful occupation ended violently, with a fire that caused an estimated $1 million damages to the computer centre and the arrest of ninety-seven individuals, forty-eight of whom were Black protesters. The author focuses on how these events were interpreted by various social actors: student unions, the Sir George Williams Faculty Union, the university administrators, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and Montreal's Black community.
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Debating Dissent: Canada and the Sixties
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Toronto, ON
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University of Toronto Press
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2012
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97-114
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en
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978-1-4426-4164-8
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Martel, Marcel. “‘Riot’ at Sir George Williams: Giving Meaning to Student Dissent.” In Debating Dissent: Canada and the Sixties, edited by Lara Campbell, Dominique Clément, and Gregory S. Kealey, 97–114. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 2012.
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