CUNY DIGITAL HISTORY ARCHIVE

This photo, taken by pioneering student-activist Antonio "Tony" Nieves, member and liaison of the Brooklyn League of Afro-American Collegians (B.L.A.C.) and the Puerto Rican Alliance (P.R.A.) at Brooklyn College (BC). shows student honor guards standing in formation as they marched down the aisles of the auditorium during the Malcolm X Day and Memorial at the college in 1969. Honor guard members, were members of both B.L.A.C and P.R.A., wore red, black, and green arm bands symbolizing the Afro-African flag in celebration of Malcolm X and Black solidarity.

This item is part of the Puerto Rican Studies at Brooklyn College (PRSBC) Collection, which covers the largely Puerto Rican-led student movement at Brooklyn College (CUNY) during the late 1960s and early 1970s that fought for the creation of the Puerto Rican Studies Department at the college. The collection includes oral history interviews with pioneering student activists, photographs of participants and their struggles, and other archival materials on the fight to create the Puerto Rican Studies Department drawn from the Archives and Special Collections library at Brooklyn College.