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
Nine Police Surveillance Photographs — 1941 May Day Parade

These surveillance photographs were taken by the New York City Police Department on May Day 1941. The images show participants from multiple City College student and faculty organizations including a chapter of the American Student Union. Marchers [...]

Item Type: Image (Photograph)
Time Period: 1847-1945 The First Century of Public Higher Education in NYC
Subjects: Academic Freedom, Activism, Labor Unions, Politics
Tags: City College of New York, Communist Party, Free Speech, May Day, Police, Protest, Rapp-Coudert Committee, Student Activism

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