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)
Shut The City Down flier

Original flier used to publicize and invite CUNY and high school students to the March 23, 1995 rally at City Hall and the unpermitted march on Wall Street planned for after the rally. Included here is a separate document that was distributed among [...]

Item Type: Text (Flier / Leaflet (1 or 2 page handout))
Time Period: 1993-1999 End of Remediation and Open Admissions in Senior Colleges
Subjects: Activism, Austerity, Financial Aid, Politics, Relationships with Communities, Student Organizations, Tuition
Tags: Budget Cuts, CUNY Coalition Against the Cuts, High School, Protest, Wall Street

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