What did civil rights activists in NYC want the city to do?
What was the name of the black minister who played a significant role in organizing the boycott?
Were there some NYC people who made it clear they were not sympathetic to the idea of integration?
What major building was torn down in the early 1960s that shocked many New Yorkers?
What major road/highway project of Robert Moses’s led to serious opposition?
Who was one of the main leaders of the opposition to Moses’s project who wrote an important book and what were some of its main ideas?
Were they successful at blocking Moses’s project?
Article on CUNY Protests for Open Admissions https://www.gothamcenter.org/blog/from-the-cuny-digital-history-archive-the-five-demands-and-the-university-of-harlem?rq=CUNY
What did you learn from the article about the history of CUNY? When was it founded? Was there always tuition?
Why did CUNY students at City College and other campuses protest in the late 1960s? What were their goals?
What was the Open Admissions Policy?
Article about the Stonewall Riot (which was protest in NYC in 1969 by LGBTQ people that is seen as key moment in develop of LGBTQ protest movement).
What happened at Stonewall? Why was it important?
What role did the Gay Liberation Front play?
In the video in the article, what do they say about the question who threw the first brick? And what does it tell us about the difficulty of doing history and who “owns history?
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