CUNY DIGITAL HISTORY ARCHIVE

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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
Coalition Press, c. 1995

A student activist newspaper produced by CUNY Coalition Against the Cuts - an organization that consisted of concerned students and faculty. The demands included no tuition hikes, no budget cuts and a restoration of funding for remedial programs [...]

Item Type: Text (Newspaper / Magazine / Journal)
Time Period: 1993-1999 End of Remediation and Open Admissions in Senior Colleges
Subjects: Activism, Austerity, Relationships with Communities, Remediation, Student Organizations, Tuition
Tags: Budget Cuts, Coalition, Media / Press, Police, Protest, Shut the City Down
MUMIA - Youth Rising Summer 2000

Mumia Youth Rising was produced by SLAM! High School Organizing Program, an initiative that offered workshops to public school students in which they addressed racism, prison justice and activism. This publication contains student produced articles [...]

Item Type: Text (Pamphlet / Petition)
Time Period: 2000-2010 Centralization of CUNY
Subjects: Activism, Pedagogy, Politics, Relationships with Communities, Student Organizations
Tags: Police, Protest, Racial Injustice, Student Activism

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