poster for Brooklyn College CORE

poster for Brooklyn College CORE

This is a 1963 poster for the Brooklyn College CORE chapter that has been defaced. The word 'negroes' was scratched out and replaced with 'niggers'. It demonstrates that even in the City University of New York which had 'developed a reputation as a bastion of liberalism’, these types of racist incidents were not uncommon. Brooklyn College like most of CUNY at this time was mostly White.
The image comes from an editorial by Alan Friedman, 'The Complacent Society', in the Brooklyn College student newspaper.

Brooklyn College CORE

'The Complacent Society' by Alan Friedman

Brooklyn College

December 20, 1963

Brooklyn, New York, Dec. 20, 1963