October 24, 1974 letter Frank Bonilla, head of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College to Brooklyn College President John Kneller Supporting the Student-led Struggle on the campus
In this October 24, 1974 letter from Frank Bonilla, head of the recently formed Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños (Center for Puerto Rican Studies) at Hunter College, expressed the center's support for Brooklyn College (BC) faculty and students demanding the right to self-determination for the BC Department of Puerto Rican Studies . The letter expressed support of the Puerto Rican and African American students who had taken over the BC Registrar's office for several days in protest of BC President John Kneller's decision not to hire María Sánchez as the Department of Puerto Rican Studies chairperson.
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 | Bonilla, Frank
Date Created | October 24, 1974
Rights | Public Domain.
Item Type | Text (Correspondence)
Cite This document | Bonilla, Frank, “October 24, 1974 letter Frank Bonilla, head of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College to Brooklyn College President John Kneller Supporting the Student-led Struggle on the campus ,” CUNY Digital History Archive, accessed April 28, 2024, https://cdha.cuny.edu/items/show/14052.
Creator | Bonilla, Frank
Date Created | October 24, 1974
Rights | Public Domain.
Item Type | Text (Correspondence)
Cite This document | Bonilla, Frank, “October 24, 1974 letter Frank Bonilla, head of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College to Brooklyn College President John Kneller Supporting the Student-led Struggle on the campus ,” CUNY Digital History Archive, accessed April 28, 2024, https://cdha.cuny.edu/items/show/14052.
