May 9, 1969 Announcement from Acting President George Peck alerting the Brooklyn College community that the NYPD would patrol the campus
On May 9, 1969 Acting Brooklyn College (BC) President George Peck announced the role of the NY Police Department in response to the student-led movement at. The document described various protest strategies and acts of civil disobedience coordinated by members of the student body. The Acting President also commented on plans to implement CUNY's open admissions policy to provide college admission for every graduate of New York City high schools.
This item is part of the Puerto Rican Studies at Brooklyn College (PRSBC) Collection, which covers the largely Puerto Rican-led student movement at Brooklyn College (CUNY) during the late 1960s and early 1970s that fought for the creation of the Puerto Rican Studies Department at the college. The collection includes oral history interviews with pioneering student activists, photographs of participants and their struggles, and other archival materials on the fight to create the Puerto Rican Studies Department drawn from the Archives and Special Collections library at Brooklyn College.
This item is part of the Puerto Rican Studies at Brooklyn College (PRSBC) Collection, which covers the largely Puerto Rican-led student movement at Brooklyn College (CUNY) during the late 1960s and early 1970s that fought for the creation of the Puerto Rican Studies Department at the college. The collection includes oral history interviews with pioneering student activists, photographs of participants and their struggles, and other archival materials on the fight to create the Puerto Rican Studies Department drawn from the Archives and Special Collections library at Brooklyn College.
Source | Brooklyn College Library, Archives and Special Collections
Creator | Peck, George A.
Date Created | May 5, 1969
Rights | Public Domain.
Item Type | Text (Memorandum/Press Release / Statement)
Cite This document | Peck, George A. , “May 9, 1969 Announcement from Acting President George Peck alerting the Brooklyn College community that the NYPD would patrol the campus ,” CUNY Digital History Archive, accessed April 28, 2024, https://cdha.cuny.edu/items/show/13942.
Creator | Peck, George A.
Date Created | May 5, 1969
Rights | Public Domain.
Item Type | Text (Memorandum/Press Release / Statement)
Cite This document | Peck, George A. , “May 9, 1969 Announcement from Acting President George Peck alerting the Brooklyn College community that the NYPD would patrol the campus ,” CUNY Digital History Archive, accessed April 28, 2024, https://cdha.cuny.edu/items/show/13942.
