June 10, 1969 Letter from the Bedford-Stuyvesant "majority dissident" group to CUNY Chancellor Albert Bowker
On June 10, 1969, ten representatives of various Bedford-Stuyvesant’s educational and community organizations wrote to Albert Bowker, Chancellor of the City University of New York (CUNY) formally expressing their disagreements with the Bedford-Stuyvesant Coalition on Educational Needs and Services (B-SCENS) Negotiation Team for Community College 7. In recent weeks, the five-member Negotiation Team, which had been appointed by B-SCENS, and chaired by Al Vann, had reached what Bowker had deemed an “impasse” with CUNY officials over the selection of a president for the new college. The letter’s signatories, who included Louise Glover of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and representatives of several local chapters of the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA), demanded to be represented in the ongoing deliberations with CUNY. The “majority dissenters” also cast aspersions on the processes by which Vann and his Negotiation Team had represented the preferences of the broader Bedford-Stuyvesant community.
Source | Donald Watkins Collection (Brooklyn Public Library)
Creator | NAACP, (Brooklyn Branch), Salvation Army - Bedford Temple Corp, Community of Bedford-Bushwick (C.O.R.B.), Central Brooklyn Coordinating Council, Bedford-STuyvesant Youth Action, Inc, Unity Democratic Club, YMCA - Bedford Branch, Bed-Stuy Model Cities Education Committee, Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance
Date Created | June 10, 1969
Item Type | Text (Pamphlet / Petition)
Cite This document | NAACP, (Brooklyn Branch), Salvation Army - Bedford Temple Corp, Community of Bedford-Bushwick (C.O.R.B.), Central Brooklyn Coordinating Council, Bedford-STuyvesant Youth Action, Inc, Unity Democratic Club, YMCA - Bedford Branch, Bed-Stuy Model Cities Education Committee, Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance , “June 10, 1969 Letter from the Bedford-Stuyvesant "majority dissident" group to CUNY Chancellor Albert Bowker,” CUNY Digital History Archive, accessed April 27, 2024, https://cdha.cuny.edu/items/show/13662.
Creator | NAACP, (Brooklyn Branch), Salvation Army - Bedford Temple Corp, Community of Bedford-Bushwick (C.O.R.B.), Central Brooklyn Coordinating Council, Bedford-STuyvesant Youth Action, Inc, Unity Democratic Club, YMCA - Bedford Branch, Bed-Stuy Model Cities Education Committee, Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance
Date Created | June 10, 1969
Item Type | Text (Pamphlet / Petition)
Cite This document | NAACP, (Brooklyn Branch), Salvation Army - Bedford Temple Corp, Community of Bedford-Bushwick (C.O.R.B.), Central Brooklyn Coordinating Council, Bedford-STuyvesant Youth Action, Inc, Unity Democratic Club, YMCA - Bedford Branch, Bed-Stuy Model Cities Education Committee, Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance , “June 10, 1969 Letter from the Bedford-Stuyvesant "majority dissident" group to CUNY Chancellor Albert Bowker,” CUNY Digital History Archive, accessed April 27, 2024, https://cdha.cuny.edu/items/show/13662.
