Salute at flag raising ceremony during 1969 Malcom 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 (BC), shows B.L.A.C. member Larry Sparks as he raised the Black Liberation flag on the flagpole located at the East Quad on campus during the 1969Malcolm X Day and Memorial event on the BC campus. Also shown are student members of P.R.A., and B.L.A.C. standing guard so no one disrupted the event or would touch the Puerto Rican and Black Liberation flags raised at the center of the 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

Copyrighted

English

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