CUNY DIGITAL HISTORY ARCHIVE

A participatory project to collect and preserve the histories of the City University of New York

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School Boycott

This exhibition includes flyers promoting The School Boycott which occurred on February 3rd, 1964. It was organized by local New York City civil rights leaders, and members of the NAACP and CORE. More than 450,000 students boycotted their public [...]

Item Type: Hyperlink
Time Period: 1961-1969 The Creation of CUNY - Open Admissions Struggle
Subjects: Activism, Board of Higher Education, NYC Public Schools, Relationships with Communities, Student Organizations
Tags: Bayard Rustin, Civil Rights Movement, Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), High School, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Parents' Workshop for Equality, Protest, Racial Injustice, Student Activism, Student Help Project
Mississippi Freedom Summer

This exhibit consists of photographs and flyers highlighting the participation of Queens College student activists in the Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964. In particular, many of these students were involved in the Meridian Freedom School [...]

Item Type: Hyperlink
Time Period: 1961-1969 The Creation of CUNY - Open Admissions Struggle
Subjects: Activism, NYC Public Schools, Relationships with Communities, Student Organizations
Tags: Civil Rights Movement, Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), High School, James Forman, Joyce Brown, Mark and Betty Levy, Meridian Freedom School, Protest, Racial Injustice, Robert Moses, Roscoe Jones, Student Activism, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Three Who Died for Civil Rights

This exhibit contains items including articles, flyers and logs related to the murders of civil rights workers Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner and James Chaney in Mississippi, 1964. Goodman was a student at Queens College at the time of his death. [...]

Item Type: Hyperlink
Time Period: 1961-1969 The Creation of CUNY - Open Admissions Struggle
Subjects: Activism, Diversity, Relationships with Communities, Student Organizations
Tags: Andrew Goodman, Civil Rights Movement, Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, Protest, Queens College, Racial Injustice, Student Activism, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Five Demands

This handout, created by a group of protesting City College students, offers insight into the motivations behind a campus-wide strike in April/May 1969. Black and Puerto Rican students, as well as white supporters, demanded the college meet these [...]

Item Type: Text (Flier / Leaflet (1 or 2 page handout))
Time Period: 1961-1969 The Creation of CUNY - Open Admissions Struggle
Subjects: Activism, Bilingual Education, Diversity, Ethnic, Black or Latino Studies, Open Admissions, Relationships with Communities
Tags: Black and Puerto Rican Studies, Buell Gallagher, City College of New York, Harlem, Open Admissions, Police, Protest, SEEK, Student Activism, Student Strike
CCNY Protest Flier

This April/May 1969 flier was created to protest police presence on campus and police brutality that many student activists objected to at City College. College administrators requested the police in order to secure the conditions necessary to [...]

Item Type: Image (Drawing)
Time Period: 1961-1969 The Creation of CUNY - Open Admissions Struggle
Subjects: Activism, Ethnic, Black or Latino Studies, Relationships with Communities
Tags: 5 Demands, Black and Puerto Rican Studies, Buell Gallagher, City College of New York, Police, Protest, Student Activism

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