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MEC for MEC, Albany, 1976

Demonstration in Albany when budget cuts threatened Medgar Evers College. Sign reads: "DON'T LET THEM ASSASSINATE MEDGAR EVERS AGAIN! KEEP ALIVE THE ONLY FOUR-YEAR COLLEGE IN OUR COMMUNITY!!"

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Source | The Charles Evans Inniss Memorial Library Archives
Date Created | March 1976
Item Type | Image (Photograph)
Cite This document | “MEC for MEC, Albany, 1976,” CUNY Digital History Archive, accessed May 18, 2021, https://cdha.cuny.edu/items/show/3122.

Collection

Time Period

1970-1977 Open Admissions - Fiscal Crisis - State Takeover

Subject

1970s Fiscal Crisis

Activism

Relationships with Communities

State and/or City budget

Tags

Budget Cuts, Medgar Evers College, Student Activism

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