Professor Carlos E. Russell with Brooklyn College Students

This photo, taken by pioneering student-activist Antonio "Tony" Nieves, a 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), depicts: (left to right) Black Panther Party, B.L.A.C. and P.R.A. member, Ray Aviles; P.R.A. member Ruth Ramos; Professor Carlos E. Russell; and P.R.A. member Dylcia Pagan. Pagan would later became a political prisoner for her role as a Puerto Rican Nationalist fighting for the independence of Puerto Rico in the U.S. before receiving clemency from President Bill Clinton in 1999. BC students and faculty are gathered 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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English

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