Students seized a building in '92. The cops came. This is what they don't teach in history class.
This is a documentary produced by Richard Freeman. This part contains the now famous 1992 protest in which the Henry Administration Building was taken over by students. University Police, Champaign Police and Urbana Police are called in to remove students. Led by Latino/a students due to growing issues facing their community on the Illinois campus.
Direction
Freeman captures raw confrontation without sensationalism
Editing
Archival footage cuts like a gut punch
Production
Made with basically zero budget, maximum heart
Director
Richard Freeman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This protest directly led to the permanent establishment of La Casa Cultural Latina as an official university center—rare tangible victory from '90s campus activism.
Director Richard Freeman was himself a UIUC student who grabbed a camcorder and started filming; this was never supposed to be a 'real' documentary.
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