http://www.virtualny.cuny.edu/gutter/panels/panel1.html

This traveling exhibit includes police surveillance photographs, political cartoons, graphics, and flyers which highlight student and faculty activism at CCNY spawned by the Great Depression and the rise of fascism in Europe. Students played a major role in creating a national student movement against militarism and fascism and for free speech on campus. Faculty organized into a powerful union, and won major victories for its members. This activism brought repeated crackdowns by the CCNY college administration.

In 1940 New York State established the Rapp-Coudert Committee to investigate “subversion” in New York City’s public schools and colleges, this investigation resulted in the dismissal of 50 CCNY faculty and staff, the largest academic purge in US history. The techniques of interrogation developed by this committee become the model for the anti-communist investigations of the 1950s.

This exhibit can be viewed online:
http://www.virtualny.cuny.edu/gutter/panels/panel1.html

http://www.virtualny.cuny.edu/gutter/panels/panel1.html

This traveling exhibit includes police surveillance photographs, political cartoons, graphics, and flyers which highlight student and faculty activism at CCNY spawned by the Great Depression and the rise of fascism in Europe. Students played a major role in creating a national student movement against militarism and fascism and for free speech on campus. Faculty organized into a powerful union, and won major victories for its members. This activism brought repeated crackdowns by the CCNY college administration.

In 1940 New York State established the Rapp-Coudert Committee to investigate “subversion” in New York City’s public schools and colleges, this investigation resulted in the dismissal of 50 CCNY faculty and staff, the largest academic purge in US history. The techniques of interrogation developed by this committee become the model for the anti-communist investigations of the 1950s.

This exhibit can be viewed online:
http://www.virtualny.cuny.edu/gutter/panels/panel1.html