October 25, 1974 Student Flyer Announcing Rally in Support of the BC 44

In response to the arrest of 41 Brooklyn College (BC) students and three faculty members, known as the Brooklyn College 44, student activists created and distributed this flyer on October 25, 1974, requesting support of a campus strike. Puerto Rican and African American students took over the Registrar's office at the campus for several days in protest of BC President John Kneller's decision not to hire María Sánchez as the chairperson of the Department of Puerto Rican Studies.

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.

Brooklyn College Library, Archives and Special Collections

October 25, 1974

Brooklyn College Library, Archives and Special Collections

Public Domain

English

8.5" X 11"

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