Student Activism Then and Now

Students gather with handmade signs calling for the resignation of Dean Grossi, April 5th, 1968. Pratt Institute Archives Photograph Collection.

During the 2020 Fall semester, Archives Graduate Assistants Miranda Siler and Nicole Marconi collaborated with Preserving Activism research fellow Amber Colón to create the Libraries’ first digital exhibit Protests at Pratt: Student Activism Then and Now. To develop this exhibit, Miranda and Nicole digitized and cataloged materials from the Archives, ranging from pages of the Prattler to ephemera related to protest actions. Amber, Miranda, and Nicole then curated these documents to trace student activism at Pratt spanning the late 1960s and early 1970s, including demands of the Black Student Union for racial equity, the anti-war movement, the rapid rise in tuition costs, and initiatives for community involvement. 

Learn more about Activism at Pratt through the following links…

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