Tony Nieves and other student activists guarding flagpole during 1969 Malcolm X Day and Memorial at Brooklyn College

This photo was part of the collection of photos shot 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). The photo (taken by Orlando Pile, former president of B.L.A.C.) shows Nieves (on the right with glasses) standing next to members of P.R.A., B.L.A.C., and S.D.S. at the flag raising ceremony during the 1969 Malcolm X Day and Memorial event at the campus. Student-activists guarded the flagpole so no one would touch the Puerto Rican and Black Liberation flags raised at the center of the BC campus.

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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