September 24, 1969 Letter from Al Vann to Porter Chandler
On September 24, 1969, Al Vann, Chairman of the Bedford-Stuyvesant Coalition on Educational Needs and Services (B-SCENS) wrote a letter to Porter Chandler, Chairman of the Board of Higher Education, responding to a recent Resolution of the Executive Committee of the Board of Higher Education to disband the Presidential Search and Planning Committee for Community College 7, of which Vann had been a community-appointed member. In his letter, Vann denies the authority of the Board of Higher Education and its Executive Committee to disband the committee and, as they had also announced, to proceed in planning a college in and for Bedford-Stuyvesant without the “involvement, support and endorsement” of the B-SCENS and its members.
