It’s starting to get dark, so you head out to take the subway back to Harlem from Flatbush. How many of BLAC’s 18 demands will be met? It seems like activist students across CUNY are making inroads for change, but if the chilling police presence at City is now any sign, there’s a lot more work to do.
Two historical outcomes of the 1969 Brooklyn College Black and Puerto Rican student protests:
1. President Peck and the Faculty Council of Brooklyn College issue a recommendation to begin implementing open admissions for Fall 1969
2. The college establishes the Afro-American Institute in the 1969-1970 academic year (later renamed Africana Studies department)
Source: “Brooklyn College students fight for open admissions, Africana Studies.” Global Nonviolent Action Database.