CUNY DIGITAL HISTORY ARCHIVE

Crecensio "Joey" Morales entered Brooklyn College during the late 1960s as a student in the SEEK program, a relatively new program then, established to support marginalized students be more successful in college. Morales was drafted into the Vietnam War while a student-activist at Brooklyn College. He returned to a campus actively engaged in the struggle for equitable rights influencing his participation in office takeovers and other forms of protest in the struggle that was led mostly by Puerto Rican and African-American students. Morales recalled detailed of his undergraduate tenure during a racially, economically, and linguistically transformational period for Brooklyn College including his role as of the Brooklyn College 44.

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.