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DID P.A. Cause a problem at M&A in May 1970?

7/13/2019

According to a Daily News article, on May 13, 1970, there was a disturbance at the High School of Music & Art, that might have been caused by Performing Arts students. The Castle was closed early because of it. (I've retyped the section of the article concerning M&A so it can be easily read).

Daily News Newspaper, Thurs, May 14, 1970, pg. 34

8 City High Schools Hit
By Protests; 2 Are Shut

Thousands of high school students engaged in anti-war protests at eight schools throughout the city yesterday, with the majority of demonstrations reported to be peaceful.

However, two schools, the High School of Music and Art in Manhattan and Thomas Jefferson in Brooklyn were closed early after trouble broke out.

Augusta Made a Theme

Officials at Thomas Jefferson High School at Pennsylvania and Dumont Aves., closed the building after “student demonstrations started to get out of hand,” according to reports to the Board of Education. Earlier, about 1,000 students had conducted a peaceful assembly program to discuss the riots in Augusta, Ga., where six black men died.

The High School of Music and Art, at Convent Ave. and 135th St., was closed at 10:30 after about 250 students from the School for Performing Arts, 120 W. 46th St., invaded the building and began pushing teachers and students. School system officials could not say whether or not the incident was related to the anti-war demonstrations.

The rest of the article talks about disruptions at George Washington High School in Washington Heights, student suspensions and Board of Education compromises.

I attended M&A from 1968 through 1971 but I hadn't heard about P.A. coming to the school. Do you know anything about this event?

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THere Were Two Cafeteria Take-Overs In June 1969

7/1/2019

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I came across a couple of newspaper articles about hot-topic events, which occurred while I was at M&A. I decided to share them because others must have a lot more information about these situations than what's in the article. I'm looking forward to the opinions and photographs concerning these exciting and nerve-wrecking happenings.

In general, during the early part of June 1969, there were two separate student take-overs of the basement cafeteria. They occurred because of the suspension of the President of the Student General Organization, Donald Reeves.

The first sit-in took place on Tuesday, 6/3/69 and the second was on Friday, 6/6/69.

DAILY NEWS Newspaper - Wednesday, June 4, 1969

(L) Donald Reeves

End of article

DAILY NEWS Newspaper - Saturday, June 7, 1969

Angered by their principal's refusal to promise them amnesty in all future demonstrations, 150 of the 2,000 students at the High School of Music and Art seized the school cafeteria again yesterday.

End of article

Were you there during either event? Were you at both? What did you hear?

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DID P.A. Cause a problem at M&A in May 1970?

THere Were Two Cafeteria Take-Overs In June 1969

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