The Battle for Historical Interpretation with Lessons for Today’s Movement How the Black Movement in Harlem, Student Afro-American Society and Students for a Democratic Society took on the Columbia ruling class representatives, Mayor Lindsay, The New York Times and the New York Police Department and Won. Eric Mann, director of the Labor/Community Strategy Center, Veteran of the Congress of Racial Equality, Newark Community Union Project, Students for a Democratic Society, the Columbia University Struggle and the United Auto Workers, author of Playbook for Progressives: The 16 Qualities of the Successful Organizer In Conversation with Komozi Woodard, author of Nation within a Nation: Amiri Baraka and Black Power Politics, and Channing Martinez, lead organizer, Labor/Community Strategy Center, and manager, Strategy and Soul Movement Center