Flag Raising Ceremony during Malcolm X Day and Memorial at Brooklyn College

This photo, 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, shows members of both P.R.A. and B.L.A.C. at the flag raising ceremony during the Malcolm X Day and memorial event at BC in 1969. The Puerto Rican and Black Liberation flags were raised and flown on the flagpole located at the middle of the Brooklyn College campus in front of the Library and the President's office on the East Quad of the campus. Event organizers and attendees can be seen at the ceremony. This photo was accidentally overexposed by Nieves.

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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