Oral History Interview with Dr. Orlando Pile
In this oral history with Dr. Orlando Pile, physician and former student-activist at Brooklyn College (BC) during the late 1960s, Pile discussed the ways his experiences growing up in Brooklyn influenced his activism at BC. He talked his role as former president of the Brooklyn League of Afro-American Collegians (B.L.A.C.) during a transformational period in the history of 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.
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 | November 2019
Interviewer | Pam Sporn and Tami Gold
Interviewee | Orlando Pile
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 Dr. Orlando Pile,” CUNY Digital History Archive, accessed April 27, 2024, https://cdha.cuny.edu/items/show/14152.
Creators | Sporn, Pam ; Gold, Tami
Date Created | November 2019
Interviewer | Pam Sporn and Tami Gold
Interviewee | Orlando Pile
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 Dr. Orlando Pile,” CUNY Digital History Archive, accessed April 27, 2024, https://cdha.cuny.edu/items/show/14152.
