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18 Student Demands presented in Spring 1969 to Brooklyn College Administration

Puerto Rican and African American students at Brooklyn College (CUNY) co-wrote a list of 18 demands presented to the President of the college in the Spring of 1969. The Puerto Rican Alliance (P.R.A.) at Brooklyn College and the Brooklyn League of [...]

Item Type: Text (Memorandum/Press Release / Statement)
Time Period: 1961-1969 The Creation of CUNY - Open Admissions Struggle
Subjects: Activism, Ethnic, Black or Latino Studies, Puerto Rican Studies, Student Organizations
Tags: 18 Demands, African American Students, B.L.A.C., Black Students, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn League of Afro-American Collegians, Institute of Afro-American Studies, Institute of Puerto Rican Studies, P.R.A., Professor Brandstein, Professor Faganis, Professor Ford, Professor Slotnick, Professor Zimmerman, Puerto Rican Alliance, Puerto Rican Students, Student Activism
Brooklyn College President's April 18, 1969, Response to Puerto Rican and African-American Students' 18 Demands

The Office of the President at Brooklyn College (BC) responded on April 18, 1969, to the 18 Demands presented by Puerto Rican and African-American students earlier that month. In response to the first demands, the office alluded to CUNY's proposed [...]

Item Type: Text (Memorandum/Press Release / Statement)
Time Period: 1961-1969 The Creation of CUNY - Open Admissions Struggle
Subjects: Activism, Diversity, Ethnic, Black or Latino Studies, Pedagogy, Puerto Rican Studies, Student Organizations
Tags: 18 Demands, African American Faculty, African American Students, Black Faculty, Black Panther Party, Black Students, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn College Bookstore, C.I.A. on campus, Curriculum, Curriculum Transformation, Institute of Afro-American Studies, Institute of Puerto Rican Studies, Kingsman, Martin Luther King Jr. Distinguished Visiting Professorship, Open Admissions, Panther 21, Professor Brandstein, Professor Faganis, Professor Ford, Professor Slotnick, Professor Zimmerman, Puerto Rican Faculty, Puerto Rican Students, Response to Demands, Robert T. Fitzhugh, Willie Watson
Summer 1969 Brooklyn College Faculty Council Resolution Confirming the Establishment of the Puerto Rican and Afro-American Institutes at Brooklyn College

The establishment of both the Puerto Rican and Afro-American Institutes within Brooklyn College (BC), effective September, 1969, was announced in Minutes of the BC Faculty Council, . This document confirms the institutional purpose for both [...]

Item Type: Text (Memorandum/Press Release / Statement)
Time Period: 1961-1969 The Creation of CUNY - Open Admissions Struggle
Subjects: Board of Higher Education, CUNY Administration, Ethnic, Black or Latino Studies, Pedagogy, Puerto Rican Studies
Tags: Afro-American Studies, Brooklyn College, Faculty Council, Institute of Afro-American Studies, Institute of Puerto Rican Studies, Puerto Rican Studies
January 29, 1970 Request for Creation of a Department of Puerto Rican Studies at Brooklyn College

This January 29, 1970, letter, written by Professor Josephine Nieves, Director of the Institute for Puerto Rican Studies at Brooklyn College (BC), makes an official request to found a Department of Puerto Rican Studies at the college. The letter [...]

Item Type: Text (Correspondence)
Time Period: 1970-1977 Open Admissions - Fiscal Crisis - State Takeover
Subjects: CUNY Administration, Ethnic, Black or Latino Studies, Faculty Governance, Puerto Rican Studies
Tags: Brooklyn College, Curriculum, Curriculum Transformation, Dean Albaum, Department of Puerto Rican Studies, Institute of Puerto Rican Studies, John Kneller, Josephine Nieves, Puerto Rican Studies
February 5, 1970 Letter from Brooklyn College President Kneller favoring the establishment of a Department of Puerto Rican Studies at the college

In this February 5, 1970 letter from President John Kneller to Prof. Josephine Nieves, director of the Institute of Puerto Rican Studies at Brooklyn College (BC) responded to her formal request for the creation of a Department of Puerto Rican [...]

Item Type: Text (Correspondence)
Time Period: 1970-1977 Open Admissions - Fiscal Crisis - State Takeover
Subjects: CUNY Administration, Ethnic, Black or Latino Studies, Puerto Rican Studies
Tags: Afro-American Institute, Brooklyn College, Daniel Mayers, Department of Puerto Rican Studies, Faculty Council, Institute of Puerto Rican Studies, John Kneller, Josephine Nieves, President John W. Kneller, Professor Bargman, Puerto Rican Studies
May 21, 1971 Press Release announcing opening of Bilingual Day Care Center by the Brooklyn College Institute of Puerto Rican Studies

May 21, 1971 Press Release from Brooklyn College's (BC) Office of College Relations announced plans by the BC Institute of Puerto Rican Studies to open the first ever Bilingual Day Care Center in an effort to meet the needs of BC students and [...]

Item Type: Text (Newspaper / Magazine / Journal / Catalogue)
Time Period: 1970-1977 Open Admissions - Fiscal Crisis - State Takeover
Subjects: Ethnic, Black or Latino Studies, Puerto Rican Studies
Tags: 1448 St. John Place, Brooklyn College, Department of Social Services of the City of New York, early childhood, Escuela Infantil Bilingue, Institute of Puerto Rican Studies, Paula Vazquez, Puerto Rican Studies
Oral History Interview with Antonio "Tony" Nadal

This oral history with Antonio "Tony" Nadal, musician and co-founder of the Department of Puerto Rican Studies at Brooklyn College (BC), is filled with personal stories, anecdotes, and singing about his work within the field of Puerto Rican Studies. [...]

Item Type: Oral History (Digital)
Time Periods: 1961-1969 The Creation of CUNY - Open Admissions Struggle, 1970-1977 Open Admissions - Fiscal Crisis - State Takeover
Subjects: Activism, Bilingual Education, Ethnic, Black or Latino Studies, Pedagogy, Puerto Rican Studies, Retirees, Student Organizations
Tags: B.L.A.C., BC44, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Education Curriculum, Bilingual Teacher Education, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn College 44, Brooklyn League of Afro-American Collegians, Centro de Educacion para Adultos, Elba Lugo, Escuela Infantil Bilingue, Geraldo Rivera, Herminio Vargas, Institute of Puerto Rican Studies, Josephine Nieves, Maria Sanchez, MEDo, Milga Morales Nadal, Movimiento Estudiantil Dominicano, P.R.A., P.S.P., President John W. Kneller, President Robert L. Hess, PRLS, Puerto Rican Alliance, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies Department, Puerto Rican Diaspora, Puerto Rican Music, Puerto Rican Revolutionary Workers Organization, Puerto Rican Studies, Richie Perez, S.D.S., Sonia Nieto, Students for a Democratic Society, Thomas Bruce Birkenhead, Vietnam Draft, Vietnam War
Oral History Interview with Dr. Milga Morales Nadal

Retiring as Vice President of Student Affairs at Brooklyn College, an office she occupied as a student activist in the late 1960s, Dr. Milga Morales Nadal, shares details about the Puerto Rican student movement at the college. She described the [...]

Item Type: Oral History (Digital)
Time Periods: 1961-1969 The Creation of CUNY - Open Admissions Struggle, 1970-1977 Open Admissions - Fiscal Crisis - State Takeover
Subjects: Activism, Bilingual Education, Ethnic, Black or Latino Studies, Puerto Rican Studies, Student Organizations
Tags: 18 Demands, A.P.R.E.E., Alliance for Puerto Rican Education and Empowerment, ASPIRA, B.L.A.C., BC44, Brooklyn, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn College 44, Brooklyn League of Afro-American Collegians, Carmen Dinos, Civil Rights Movement, College Discovery Program, Escuela Infantil Bilingue, Ethnic Studies, Gowanus, Greenpoint-Williamsburg, Guyanilla, Herminio Vargas, Institute of Afro-American Studies, Institute of Puerto Rican Studies, Josephine Nieves, La Playita, Language Acquisition, Latino Faculty and Staff, Local 1199, Maria Sanchez, Massacre de Ponce, Open Admissions, P.R., P.R.A., President Office Takeover, Puerto Rican Alliance, Puerto Rican Diaspora, Puerto Rican Music, Puerto Rican Studies, Puerto Rico, S.D.S., SEEK, Sonia Nieto, Students for a Democratic Society, Vietnam War, W.E.B. DuBois Club, Young Lords Organization
Oral History Interview with Antonio "Tony" Nieves

In this oral history with Antonio "Tony" Nieves, photographer, pharmacist, and former student-activist at Brooklyn College during the late 1960s, Nieves discussed his unique role as both liaison and photographer for both the Puerto Rican Alliance [...]

Item Type: Oral History (Digital)
Time Periods: 1961-1969 The Creation of CUNY - Open Admissions Struggle, 1970-1977 Open Admissions - Fiscal Crisis - State Takeover
Subjects: Activism, Ethnic, Black or Latino Studies, Puerto Rican Studies, Student Organizations
Tags: 18 Demands, B.L.A.C., BC19, Black Panther Party, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn College 19, Brooklyn League of Afro-American Collegians, Criminalization of Students, Educational Opportunity Program, EOP, Institute of Puerto Rican Studies, Malcom X Day, P.R.A., Proud to be Puerto Rican Conference, Puerto Rican Alliance, Puerto Rican Studies, W.E.B. DuBois Club, Young Lords Organization
Oral History Interview with Dr. Orlando Pile

In this oral history with Dr. Orlando Pile, physician and former student-activist at Brooklyn College (BC) during the late 1960s, Pile discussed the ways his experiences growing up in Brooklyn influenced his activism at BC. He talked his role as [...]

Item Type: Oral History (Digital)
Time Periods: 1961-1969 The Creation of CUNY - Open Admissions Struggle, 1970-1977 Open Admissions - Fiscal Crisis - State Takeover
Subjects: Activism, Ethnic, Black or Latino Studies, Puerto Rican Studies, Student Organizations
Tags: Angela Davis, Antonio Nieves, B.L.A.C., BC19, Black Panther Party, Black Studies Conference, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn College 19, Brooklyn League of Afro-American Collegians, Clyde R. Dillard, Craig Bell, Educational Opportunity Program, EOP, Eradamus Rodriguez, Eunice Matthews, Inez Reid, Institute of Afro-American Studies, Institute of Puerto Rican Studies, Kathleen Cleaver, Maurice Watson, Maxine Rodriguez, Ocean-Hill Brownsville, Orlando Pile, P.R.A., Peter Sherwood, Puerto Rican Alliance, Puerto Rican Studies, Richard Trent, S.D.S., SEEK, Student Activism, Student Demands, Student Protest, Students for a Democratic Society, Vietnam War, Winston Price

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