Carlos E. Russell speaks during Malcolm X Day and Memorial at Brooklyn College

This photo was 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). Professor Carlos E. Russell, former faculty member of the Department of Afro-American Studies at BC, is seen on stage, addressing the crowd. Russell was one of a handful of faculty members supportive of the late 1960s and early 1970s Puerto Rican and Black student-led movement at the college. Seated on stage to Russell's right are Ray Aviles, member of the Black Panther Party (B.P.P.), B.L.A.C. and P.R.A., and Askia Davis, also member of the BPP and B.L.A.C. Standing on the edges of the stages are B.L.A.C. and P.R.A. members holding the Puerto Rican (photo left) and Black Liberation (photo right) flags. BC students and faculty convened for the Malcolm X Day and Memorial event at BC in 1969.

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.

Nieves, Tony

Nieves, Tony

1969

Nieves, Tony

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