Oral History Interview with Carlos "Indio" Alejandro
In this oral history interview with Reverend Carlos "Indio" Alejandro, chaplain and former student-activist at Brooklyn College during the early 1970s, Alejandro emphasized the importance of a collective racial, linguistic, and national unity that was central to student activism within the university in these years. He also shared details about his experience with police brutality as a student on campus at Brooklyn College on January 12, 1978.
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 | Alliance for Puerto Rican Education and Empowerment
Creators | Sporn, Pam ; Gold, Tami
Date Created | October 19, 2012
Interviewer | Pam Sporn and Tami Gold
Interviewee | Carlos “Alejandro” Alejandro
Rights | Copyright Alliance for Puerto Rican Education and Empowerment
Item Type | Oral History (Digital)
Cite This document | Sporn, Pam and Gold, Tami , “Oral History Interview with Carlos "Indio" Alejandro,” CUNY Digital History Archive, accessed April 30, 2024, https://cdha.cuny.edu/items/show/14102.
Creators | Sporn, Pam ; Gold, Tami
Date Created | October 19, 2012
Interviewer | Pam Sporn and Tami Gold
Interviewee | Carlos “Alejandro” Alejandro
Rights | Copyright Alliance for Puerto Rican Education and Empowerment
Item Type | Oral History (Digital)
Cite This document | Sporn, Pam and Gold, Tami , “Oral History Interview with Carlos "Indio" Alejandro,” CUNY Digital History Archive, accessed April 30, 2024, https://cdha.cuny.edu/items/show/14102.
