- Great Depression
- Student Rebels
- CCNY Rebels
- Protest ROTC
- Protest Fascism
- Protest War
- President Robinson
- Students Fight Back
- Spain
- Faculty Activists
- Teacher & Worker
- Bertrand Russell
- Rapp-Coudert Committee
- Rapp-Coudert & CCNY
- Firing Dr. Yergan
- Imprisoning Schappes
- Protests
protests
Women march in the May Day Parade in Union Square on May 1, 1941, with signs
that read “For the Workers Children—The Highest Education—Hands
Off City College.”
Charles Hendley, president of the Teachers Union, addresses over two-thousand
teachers protesting the Rapp-Coudert Committee at the Manhattan Center on
November 10, 1940.
Dr. Bella Dodd, president of the College Teachers Union, AFT Local 537,
addresses almost five- thousand individuals protesting the Rapp-Coudert
hearings on December 11, 1940, at the Manhattan Center.
The College Teachers Union and the Teachers Union form the Committee for the Defense of Public Education, which organizes mass meetings and petition campaigns with support from other labor unions and hundreds of professors, writers and religious leaders throughout the country.
Suspended faculty march in front of the home of Senator Coudert on June
19, 1941.
