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Spirit Magazine, February 1975
In this article excerpted from the December 1975 issue of York College student-run Spirit Magazine, managing editor Teddy DuBose decries proposed budget cuts to CUNY institutions at the height of the 1970s fiscal crisis in New York. DuBose [...]
Spirit Magazine, April 1975
These selections are from the April 1975 issue of the York College student-run Spirit Magazine. The publication typically focused on the concerns and needs of the college's large black student population.The magazine's cover features [...]
Spirit Magazine, December 1975
Feauturing an illlustration of Muhammed Ali on its cover, in this edition of the December 1975 issue of Spirit Magazine, the publication's editor-in-chief, Frank Tucker, bemoans the less than satisfactory support given to Spirit from York [...]
Spirit Magazine, April 1976
This is an extract from the April 1976 issue of the York College student-run Spirit Magazine. Each of the selections from this issue: the cover, the editorial, and the letter to the editor, reflect ongoing fears from students regarding the future of [...]
Spirit Magazine, January 1974
This is an excerpt from the January-February 1974 issue of the York College student-run Spirit Magazine. A brief article on the second page announces the college's creation of an African-American Studies program and the following article [...]
Oral History Interview with Lenina Nadal
In this interview, Lenina Nadal discussed her experiences in the middle of the 1990s in the Coalition Against the Cuts and as an original member of the Student Liberation Action Movement (SLAM!). She highlighted the importance of SLAM! being a women [...]
Student Drawing Depicting a Brooklyn College Student Protest at Brooklyn College to Determine Who the Chairperson Would Be
A drawing illustrating how Puerto Rican student activists at Brooklyn College (BC) imagined themselves guarding the Department of Puerto Rican Studies in protest of President John Kneller's decision in 1974 not to hire María Sánchez as the [...]
October 25, 1974 Student Flyer Announcing Rally in Support of the BC 44
In response to the arrest of 41 Brooklyn College (BC) students and three faculty members, known as the Brooklyn College 44, student activists created and distributed this flyer on October 25, 1974, requesting support of a campus strike. Puerto Rican [...]
Oral History Interview with Antonio "Tony" Nadal
This oral history with Antonio "Tony" Nadal, musician and co-founder of the Department of Puerto Rican Studies at Brooklyn College (BC), is filled with personal stories, anecdotes, and singing about his work within the field of Puerto Rican Studies. [...]
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 [...]
Oral History Interview with Crecensio "Joey" Morales
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 [...]
Oral History Interview with Dr. Milga Morales Nadal
Retiring as Vice President of Student Affairs at Brooklyn College, an office she occupied as a student activist in the late 1960s, Dr. Milga Morales Nadal, shares details about the Puerto Rican student movement at the college. She described the [...]
Oral History Interview with Antonio "Tony" Nieves
In this oral history with Antonio "Tony" Nieves, photographer, pharmacist, and former student-activist at Brooklyn College during the late 1960s, Nieves discussed his unique role as both liaison and photographer for both the Puerto Rican Alliance [...]
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 [...]
John Hyland Oral History Interview
This oral history interview was conducted on July 23, 2014 at the CUNY Graduate Center. Beginning his career as a Catholic priest in Brooklyn's Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood, John Hyland then became an English professor at LaGuardia Community [...]